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Jean-Léon Gérôme (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ leɔ̃ ʒeʁom]; 11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880."
Caricature of Gerome by Henri Oulevay, commenting on the controversy roused by The Execution of Marshal Ney. Édouard Manet, The Execution of Maximilian, 1868, Kunsthalle Mannheim. Gérôme's The Death of Caesar, 1867, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. The painting was presented at the 1868 Paris Salon. Although Ney's execution was over fifty ...
The Musée Jean-Léon Gérôme (aka Musée Georges-Garret or Georges-Garret Museum) is located in the city of Vesoul, in the Haute-Saône departement of eastern France. [ 1 ] The museum was created in 1882, and since 1981 has been installed in a former 17th-century Ursuline convent, comprising 14 rooms (9 fine art rooms and 5 archeology rooms ...
Truth at the Bottom of a Well (study, 1895) by Jean-Léon Gérôme, Musée Georges-Garret. Truth is at the Bottom of the Well (1895) by Jean-Léon Gérôme, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon . La Vérité sortant du Puits (1898) by Édouard Debat-Ponsan , Musée de l'Hôtel de Ville [ fr ] , Amboise .
Born in Alameda, but raised in Santa Cruz, Ackerman was born to Alois and Eva Sadler.While studying at the University of California, Berkeley, Ackerman had a brief relationship with poet Robert Duncan. [2]
The Death of Caesar (French: La Mort de César) is an 1867 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It depicts the moment after the assassination of Julius Caesar , when the jubilant conspirators are walking away from Caesar 's dead body at the Theatre of Pompey , on the Ides of March (March 15), 44 BC.
Gérôme: The Life and Works of Jean Léon Gérôme. New York, NY: Cassell Publishing Company. pp. 38, 255–256, 275–276, 288. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Waller, Susan (Spring 2010). "Fin de partie: A Group of Self-Portraits by Jean-Léon Gérôme". Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, 9(1): n.p.
The painting became famous almost overnight with critics of the Salon speculating about Gerome's sources for the incident depicted in the painting. [1] (The theme seems to have been in fashion; Thomas Couture dealt with the same subject in 1857 with Le Duel après le bal masqué, now in the Wallace Collection).