Sold at Auction: Jean-Léon Gérôme

Artist Jean-Leon Gerome was a French painter from the 1840s until century’s end. He produced an array of artwork, including portraits, and painted images pertaining to Greek mythology, Roman history, and exotic Middle Eastern architecture and locales. Jean-Leon Gerome's paintings fall under the Academicism school, extending the neoclassical movement into photographic realism and meticulous detail.

Artist Jean-Leon Gerome was a member of the Institut de France, an officer in Legion d'honneur, and an honorary member of the British Royal Academy. He became a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1864, holding the post for 39 years. He had great influence over other French painters, although he opposed the nontraditional styling of the Impressionists.

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