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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 ...
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."
Jerusalem (French: Jérusalem) is an 1867 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It is also known as Golgotha, Consumatum Est and The Crucifixion ( La Crucifixion ). The foreground depicts the ground of Golgotha with the shadows of three crucified men: Jesus and the two thieves.
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 kept at least one of the paintings. When he died in 1904, "the maid found him dead in the little room next to his atelier, slumped in front of a portrait of Rembrandt and at the foot of his own painting, Truth"—but the source for this anecdote, the biographer Charles Moreau-Vauthier, does not specify which painting of Truth. [11] [12]
Cleopatra and Caesar (French: Cléopâtre et César), also known as Cleopatra Before Caesar, is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Academic artist Jean-Léon Gérôme, completed in 1866. The work was originally commissioned by the French courtesan La Païva , but she was unhappy with the finished painting and returned it to Gérôme.
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).
Painted by Jean-Léon Gérôme between 1868 and 1869, the painting depicts a dark-skinned model dressed as a Bashi-bazouk, a levy of irregular Ottoman soldiers infamous for their brutality, looting, and lack of discipline. [2] Gérôme acquired the garb seen in the painting during a trip to the near east in 1868. The haphazard and mixed ...