Jean-Léon Gérôme
1824 – 1904 · aged 80
French painter and sculptor (1824–1904)
- Born
- 11 May 1824 · Vesoul
- Died
- 10 Jan 1904 · 9th arrondissement of Paris
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- 11 May 1824BornBorn in Vesoul
- 10 Jan 1904DiedDied in 9th arrondissement of Paris
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- 1853 – 1856Crimean War
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
Biography
Jean-Léon Gérôme (French: [ʒɑ̃leɔ̃ 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." The range of his works includes historical paintings, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects. Gérôme is considered among the most important painters from the academic period and was, with Meissonier and Cabanel, one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire".
He was also a teacher with a long list of students, including Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, Edwin Lord Weeks and Osman Hamdi Bey, among others.
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