Jean-Leon Gérôme

Jean-Leon Gérôme , born with Vesoul in Haute-Saône the May 11th 1824 and died in Paris the January 10th 1904, was a painter and Sculpteur French member of the Institut (armchair 3).

Emblématique of the academic painting of the Second Empire, Gérôme is sometimes described as painter fireman. It often represented Eastern scenes as well as expensive topics with the neo-classic S.

Life and work

Jean-Leon Gérôme went to Paris in 1841 and was pupil of Paul Delaroche, which it accompanied in Italy in 1844 - 1845. On its return, it was made known with the Salon 1847 by its Cockfight , fabric which already famous its concern of the detail authenticates and for which it accepted a medal. Then it changed kind and exposed: the Virgin , the Jesus child and St-Jean , and, as during: Anacréon , Bacchus and the Love . Gérôme obtained in 1848 a second medal. It gave then: Bacchus and Love drunk , Interior Greek and To remember Italy (1851), Seen Paestum (1852), Idylle (1853).

Gérôme made excursions in Turkey, on the edges of the the Danube in 1854 and Egypt in 1857, while filling its notebooks with many drawings. In 1855, it sent to the World Fair Pifferaro , Herdsman , Russian Concert and a large fabric representing the century of Auguste and the birth of Jesus-Christ , acquired by the ministry of State. Its reputation increased considerably with the Living room of 1857, where it exposed seven paintings of a more popular kind, inter alia: the Exit of the ball masked and the Duel of Pierrot .

In 1859, it sent to the living room a Mort of César and two small compositions, full with details scholars, one recalling a detail of gladiators and entitled Ave Caesar , the other representing King Candaule . In 1861, it made appear: Phryné in front of the Learned assembly , Socrate coming to seek Alcibiade at Aspasie , the Two Omens . To the same living room, it sent an Eastern scene very finely observed and returned, the Egyptian Chaffcutter , and a wonder of meticulous execution, Rembrandt making bite a board with the etching . Its best works were inspired to him by the current Orientaliste: the Prisoner and the Turkish Butcher , the Prayer , the Door of the mosque El-Hacanyn , the Market of slaves , the travelling Market in Cairo and Walk of the harem .

It often painted historical scenes such as Louis XIV and Molière (1863), the reception of the ambassadors of Siam with Fontainebleau (1865) and the death of the Maréchal Ney (1868).

As of 1862, its fabrics know a broad diffusion, in particular due to the fact that he married Marie Goupil, the girl of Adolphe Goupil, an editor of famous art.

Gérôme was also a skilful sculptor. Its Rétiaire and its Sagittarius is two excellent figurines. Its groups Gladiators , Anacréon , Bacchus and the Love , and its statues of Omphale (1887) and of Bellone (1892) (this sculpture, out of ivory, metal and invaluable stones, was exposed to the Royal Academy of London and drew much the attention), TANAGRA , is as many remarkable works. He undertook also a series of sculptures of conquerors, worked in gold, the money and the gems: Bonaparte entering to the Cairo (1897), Tamerlan (1898) and Frederic Large the (1899). It is also in Gérôme that one owes the statue of duke of Aumale which is in front of the Château of Chantilly (1899).

In 1864, he becomes professor of painting to the École of the fine arts.

Gérôme was a broad success of alive sound, so that it had its bust in the court of the Institut. However, at the end of its life, its savage hostility towards the Impressionniste S, which he regarded as “the dishonor of French art”, contributed to the decline of its popularity.

Some works in the museums…

the combat of the cocks , 1847, oil on fabric, Museum of Orsay, Paris.
the Gulls , about 1902, oil on fabric, 60 X 92 cm, Museum Garret, Vesoul.
Landscapes of the East , 1868, oil on fabric, 24 X 32 cm Garret Museum, Vesoul.
the Dance , marble, h. 87 cm, (inspired by Loïe Fuller (1862-1928), famous dancer and American choreographer), Museum Garret, Vesoul.
Women with the bath , oil on fabric, 66 X 55 cm, Museum Garret, Vesoul.
Prisoner of war to Rome , oil on fabric, 108 X 91 cm, Museum Garret, Vesoul.

Quotations…

" I like better three keys of colors on the piece of fabric that sharpest of the memories ". (Autobiographical Gérôme, notes).

" I believe that I deserve to be a little quiet, I had forty-five visits and on forty-five, there was forty-two of it which spoke about the table of Gérôme! " (Proust, " On the side from Swann, 1913) "

Influence

Raise Paul Delaroche and of Charles Gleyre, it had in its turn of many pupils among whom: Dagnan-Bouveret, Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte of Nouy, Thomas Eakins, Frank Boggs, Frederick Bridgman, Kenyon Cox, Jules Flour, Julian Alden Weir, Refusals Miller Bunker, William DeLeftwich Dodge, Alexander Harrison, Robert Lee MacCameron, Siddons Mowbray, To grip Pennington, Picardy Georges, William Picknell, Julius Stewart, Abbott Thayer, Douglas Volk, Wyatt Eaton, Lawton Parker, Fernand Peel of Cordova, Jules-Alexis Muenier, Eugene François Deshayes.

He was the father-in-law of the painter Aimé Morot.

See too

List of French painters

Source

New illustrated Larousse , 1898-1907, publication in the public domain.

External bonds

Jean-Leon Gérôme on Artcyclopedia
Works of Jean-Leon Gérôme

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