Arnaut Officer Guard

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: Arnaut Officer Guard, Cairo/corps de garde d'arnautes au caire
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The Answered Prayer

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: The Answered Prayer, 1895
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The Plain of Thebes, Upper Egypt

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: The Plain of Thebes, Upper Egypt
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After the Bath

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: After the Bath 1881
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Cleopatra before Caesar

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: Cleopatra before Caesar
Signed lower left 1866
Medium: Silk
Size: 72x51in (183x129.5cm)
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Bather

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: Bather/femme nue
Signed lower left 1889
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 16.25x12.75in (41.3x32.4cm)
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Almeh with Pipe

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: Almeh with Pipe 1873
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Reception of Grand Condé

Artist: Jean-Léon Gérôme
Title: Réception du Grand Condé par Louis XIV (Versailles, 1674), 1878
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Medium: Oil on canvas/huile sur toile
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Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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The year is 1674, and on the great Escalier des Ambassadeurs, in Versailles, Louis XIV is welcoming the Grand Condé, who has just defeated William of Orange in the battle of Seneffe. This event marked the end of almost fifteen years of exile for the Grand Condé, which had been designed by the king to punish "his cousin" for leading the Fronde against the monarchy.

Gérôme concentrated all his passion for historical reconstruction into this modest-sized painting, making use of different iconographic sources to lend the scene more credibility such as engravings of the Château de Versailles and portraits of the various persons represented.The composition is made dynamic by the high-angle view and the off-centring of the large compositional X structure. Gérôme employed a delicate palette in which the overall sense of clarity and the cool tones of the marble are invigorated by the colours of the costumes and flags.


In making this painting, Gérôme was hoping to find a buyer in the Duke of Aumale who was about to move into the Château de Chantilly, the Condés' former property. However, the transaction failed and the painting was sold to the American millionaire William Henry Vanderbilt instead. From 1886 to 1903 it was loaned to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, while the work became widely known in France through multiple engravings. After the second world war, it fell into relative obscurity. Source: Musée d'Orsay

Portrait de la Baroness Nathaniel de Rothschild

Artist: Jean-Léon Gérôme
Title: Portrait of the Baroness Nathaniel de Rothschild 1866
Medium: Oil on wood
Size: 49.6 x 35.8cm
Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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The baroness Charlotte de Rothschild (1825-1899), who married her cousin Nathaniel (1812-1870) in 1842, was brought up surrounded by the artists her parents received and so went on to become a welcome figure in the world of artists and musicians. In 1835, Frederic Chopin, her piano teacher, dedicated one of his two opus 69 waltzes to her. However, she was more interested in visual arts than music and became a watercolorist, participating regularly at the Salon, and later in the exhibitions of the Société des Aquarellistes. The Baroness was also a remarkable collector with a taste for a variety of styles, as is suggested here by the eclectic and luxurious décor which surrounds her.

The portrait, painted by Gérôme in 1866, pays homage to Ingres'1848 portrait of the model's mother, Betty (1805-1886), which is housed in a private collection. Gerôme used a similar technique to Ingres; smooth and precise with sumptuous effects such as the marbled reflections of the dress, and he also borrowed the Ingres' positioning of the hand, supporting the chin.

Female portraits by Gérôme are rare; this is the first to enter the Musée d'Orsay collections, and only the third to be recorded in the French national collections. As well as representing the baroness Nathaniel de Rothschild, one of the mid-19th centuries most renowned figures, the portrait also embodies the atmosphere of the Parisian society of the age.

Source: Musée d'Orsay

Arab Purchasing a Bridle

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: Arab Purchasing a Bridle 1881
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A Japanese imploring a Divinity

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: A Japanese imploring a Divinity
Signed lower left, 1880
Medium: oil on canvas/huile sur toile
Size: 28 x 23.75 in (71.1 x 59.1 cm)
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Arnout Chief Praying Figure Study

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: Arnout Chief Praying Figure Study/ la priere cehz un chef arnout
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Arnaut Officer

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: Arnaut Officer 1857
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Medium: Oil on Panel
Size: 13x10.5in (33x26.8cm)
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View of Paestum

View of Paestum

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: View of Paestum/ Vue de Paestum, esquisse
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Medium: oil on canvas/huile sur toile
Size:(18.5 x 27 cm)
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The Egyptian Smoker

Artist: Jean Leone Gerome
Title: The Egyptian Smoker/ Le Fumeur Egyptien 1865
Medium: etching on laid paper
Size: 11 x 8.6 cm
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Egyptian Girl

Artist: Jean Leone Gerome
Title: Egyptian Girl/ Jeune fille égyptienne 1877
Signed lower right
Medium: Oil
Size: 18.39" x 15"
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Veiled Circassian Beauty

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: Veiled Circassian Beauty, 1876 /Femme circassienne voilée
Signed: yes
Medium: Oil
Size: 16.02" x 12.83"
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I did a self-portrait in 2000 with this painting as a reference.

The Last Judgement Day

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: The Last Judgement Day/ le jour du jugement dernier
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Arnaut Smoking

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: Arnaut Smoking
Signed upper left 1865
Medium: Oil on Panel
Size: 14x10in (35.3x24.2cm)
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Arnaut of Cairo

Artist:Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: Arnaut of Cairo
Signed lower left 1870-1871
Medium: Oil on Panel
Size: 10x7.75in (25.4x20cm)
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Arnaut and Dogs

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: Arnaut and Dogs/arnaut et chiens 1879
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Monument to Gérôme

Monument à Gérôme
Originally uploaded by PiscesDreamer

Monument to Gérôme
bronze
Aimé Morot (1850 - 1913, son-in-law of Jean-Léon Gérôme)

With Philip's permission - thank you!

Markos Botsaris

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: Markos Botsaris, 1874
Signed upper center 1874
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 27x21in (70x54cm)
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King Candaules

King Candaules

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
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Rustem Pasha Mosque Istanbul

Artist:Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: Rustem Pasha Mosque Istanbul
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Lion

Lion

Artist: Jean Leone Gerome
Title: Lion
Signed lower center J. L.Gerome (late period)
Medium: Oil on Canvas/huile sur toile
Size: 23.75 x 36 in (60.3 x 91.4 cm)
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Portrait of a Lady

Portrait of a Lady

Artist: Jean Leone Gerome
Title: Portrait of a Lady 1866
Signed left center
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size21 1/4 x 14 1/8 inches (54 x 36 cm)
Location: Private collection

Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert

Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert

Title: Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert 1857
Signed lower right
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 25 1/8 x 43 1/8 inches (64 x 109.8 cm)
Location: Private collection
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The Harem in the Kiosk, Constantinople

Artist: Jéan Léone Gérôme
Title: The Harem in the Kiosk, Constantinople
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Arnaut Officer

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: Arnaut Officer
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For artists these unfinished paintings or studies are a treasure trove. Here the pencil outlines of the figures are only slightly hidden behind a thin wash. Eventhough the work is in it's early stages the arnaut has a solid presence and is well grounded, through the cast shadow. The clothing already shows promise of great attention to detail as we are used to seeing in Gërôme's work.

The Pyrrhic Dance

The Pyrrhic Dance

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: The Pyrrhic Dance
Signed lower right Jean Leone Gerome (late Period)
Medium: Oil on Canvas/huile sur toile
Size: 25 x 35 in (63.5 x 89 cm)
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A Young Nymph teased by Putti

Artist: Jean Léone Gérôme
Title: A Young Nymph teased by Putti, 1851
Signed and dated 'J. L. Gerome 1851' (lower left) inscribed with the artist's initials on the reverse
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 16 x 12 in (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
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Gérôme a follower of the Néo-Grec school of the 1850s used a popular subject-matter of Fragonard and other Rococo artists by depicting this nude scene.

This composition is after a preparatory drawing by Gérôme that was sold at Christie's, New York, May 22, 1997, entitled Venus playing with Putti by the Statue of Cupid. The drawing is lightly squared for transfer in black lead, and the figures are the same size as in the painting. There are differences between the preparatory drawing and the painting, the statue of Cupid and a decorated staff on the ground have been omitted in the oil, and the figure on the ground behind the legs of the main group is new. However, the central group of three figures is almost exactly the same as in the drawing.

Gérôme has signed his picture in italics, his practice in the fifties when signing oil sketches; his finished works were signed with Roman capitals. This painting may then be a preliminary oil sketch for a larger version of the subject not yet recovered, or perhaps never painted.

Please note than in Gerald Ackerman's revised monograph, (Jean-Léon Gérôme, monographe révisée, Catalogue raisonné mis à jour, Paris, 2000, p. 218, no. 33.5, illustrated p. 219) this work is reattributed to Studio of Gerome. Although a French translation of the above catalogue note also appears in his 2000 monograph, Mr. Ackerman now adds that the present work may be an esquisse for a larger work not yet discovered or perhaps never realized. He also feels that studio members may have been involved in the present work's execution as Mr. Ackerman considers the quality of the painting to be less than that of the drawing.
Source Prof. Gerald Ackerman Sotheby catalogue for the February 9, 1999 (lot 92)

Title Not Known

Artist: Jean Leone Gerome
Title: ?
Signed: Unfinished
Medium: Oil
Size: ca.20 x 14 in?
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Images courtesy of Neal Yasemi

This almost completed painting by Gerome hangs at the Clark museum. Note how the placement of the reflections are outlined in the water. The faces of the women are roughly blocked in at this stage.

Corinth

Corinth

Artist: Jean Leon Gerome
Title: Corinth 1904
Medium: Polychromed marble
Size: 19 5/8 x 0 inches (50 x 00 cm)
Location: Private collection
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Arabs Crossing the Desert

Artist:Jean Leon Gerome
Title: Arabs Crossing the Desert 1870
Signed lower left
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 16 1/8 x 22 inches (41.2 x 56 cm)
Location: Private Collection
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The Snake Charmer

The Snake Charmer



Jean Léone Gérôme 1824-1904
The Snake Charmer, 1870
Signed lower left, J.L Gerome 1880
Medium: Oil on Canvas/huile sur toile
Size: 33 x 48 in (83.8 x 122.1 cm)
Location:as of 2007 at Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
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The Snake Charmer focuses on a naked boy handling a python while an old man plays a fipple flute. Watching intently is a group of mercenaries differentiated by the distinctive costumes of their tribes, by ornaments, and by weapons. Such erotic and exotic imagery of Near Eastern subjects was very popular in the late nineteenth century. Despite the nearly photographic realism employed by Gérome, the painting is a pastiche of Egyptian, Turkish, and Indian elements that have no basis in reality.
Source: The Clark Institute

Bashi-Bazouk Singing

Bashi-Bazouk Singing

Title: Bashi-Bazouk Singing 1868
Signed lower right
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 18 1/8 x 25 7/8 inches (46.3 x 66 cm)
Location: Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, USA
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Bacchante and Cupid

Bacchante and Cupid

Artist: Jean Leon Gerome
Title: Bacchante and Cupid/Bacchante Et L'Amour 1897
Signed: Inscribed J. L. Gerome Siot Paris
Medium: Gilt-bronze
Location: Private collection
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Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt

Artist: Jean Leon Gerome
Title: Sarah Bernhardt 1895
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Medium: Polychromed marble
Size: 26 5/8 x 0 inches (67.7 x 00 cm)
Location: Musée de Lunéville, Lunéville, France
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Bust of Julius Ceasar

Bust of Julius Ceasar

Artist: Jean Léon Gerôme
Title : Bust of Julius Ceasar/Jules César en buste, 1865
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Mufti Reading in His Prayer Stool

Artist: Jean Leone Gerome
Title: Mufti Reading in His Prayer Stool (check title)
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The Ballplayer

The Ballplayer

Artist: Jean Leone Gerome
Title: The Ballplayer 1902
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Medium: Tinted marble
Size: 64 1/8 x 0 inches (163 x 00 cm)
Location: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caen, France

Sorrow

Sorrow

Artist: Jean Leon Gerome
Title: Sorrow 1891
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Medium: Bronze
Size: 47 1/8 x 0 inches (120 x 00 cm)
Location: Musée Garret, Vesoul, France
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Arab and his Steed

The Arab and his Steed

Artist: Jean Leone Gerome
Title: Arab and his Steed 1872
Signed lower right
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 23 1/2 x 38 7/8in (59.7x99cm)
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The Pipelighter

The Pipelighter

Artist: Jean Leon Gerome
Title: The Pipelighter/ Allumeuse de Narghile 1898
Signed lower right
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 21 3/8 x 25 7/8 inches (54.6 x 66 cm)
Location: Private collection
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