Jean Leon Gerome
French
1824-1904
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French painter, sculptor, and teacher. Son of a goldsmith, he studied in Paris and painted melodramatic and often erotic historical and mythological compositions, excelling as a draftsman in the linear style of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. His best-known works are scenes inspired by several visits to Egypt. In his later years he produced mostly sculpture. He exerted much influence as a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; his pupils included Odilon Redon and Thomas Eakins. A staunch defender of the academic tradition, he tried in 1893 to block the government acceptance of the Impressionist works bequeathed by Gustave Caillebotte.
Related Paintings of Jean Leon Gerome :. | Louis XIV and Moliere | The Fall of New Amsterdam | Portrait of a Young Boy | The Cock Fight | Harem Pool | Related Artists: Samuel ShelleyEnglish, 1750-1808 School of LatiumFirst half of the thirteenth century SCHEERE, HermanGerman miniaturist ,
active 1403-1419 in England
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