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Jean-Léon Gérôme
[French Academic Painter and Sculptor, 1824-1904]
| • Relationships: | Studied under Paul Delaroche and Charles Gleyre.
Gérôme's many students included Eugene Alexis Girardet, Dagnan-Bouveret, Lecomte du Nouy, Thomas Eakins, Frank Boggs, Frederick Bridgman, Kenyon Cox, Julian Alden Weir, Dennis Miller Bunker, William DeLeftwich Dodge, Alexander Harrison, Robert Lee MacCameron, Siddons Mowbray, Harper Pennington, William Picknell, Julius Stewart, Abbott Thayer, Douglas Volk, Wyatt Eaton and Lawton Parker. | | • Subject matter: | Specializes in Orientalism. |
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Original works by Jean-Léon Gérôme available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
4 works by Jean-Léon Gérôme online
Jean-Leon Gerome at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
8 works by Jean-Leon Gerome
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Pool in a Harem, ca.1876
The Slave Market in Rome, ca.1884
Duel after a Masked Ball, 1857
Napoleon in Egypt, 1863
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Study, "Age of Augustus, Birth of Christ", 1852
Jean-Leon Gerome at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
4 paintings
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
3 works online
Musée d'Orsay, Paris NEW!
Commentary on Monument to Gérôme
Musée d'Orsay, Paris NEW!
Commentary on 4 paintings by Gérôme
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris NEW!
12 works by Jean-Léon Gérôme online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Jean-Leon Gerome at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Dead Caesar, ca.1859
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2 paintings and 2 sculptures
Jean-Leon Gerome at the National Gallery, London, UK
Portrait of Armand Gérôme
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French) 
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Réception des ambassadeurs siamois par l'empereur Napoléon III au palais de Fontainebleau
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Predication dans la Mosque, 1903
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Leap of Marcus Curtius
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Moorish Bath - 'Le Marabout'
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
The Snake Charmer, ca.1870
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Lion on the Watch
Leaving the Oasis
Alpine Landscape: The Handegg, Switzerland
The Four Seasons
Head of an Italian Woman
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
6 works by or related to the artist
Dahesh Museum, New York City (Zoomable) NEW!
6 works online
Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Connecticut
The Chess Players, ca.1870-73 (a poor scan)
Haggin Museum, California
The Horse Market, 1867
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
The Hoop Dancer, ca.1890
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
Danseuse á la Pomme (Dancer with an Apple), 1891
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
3 works online
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
2 works online; you must type "Jean" into the top left search box and click the "GO" button
Jean-Leon Gerome in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Interior of a Mosque
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin NEW!
The Two Majesties
Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula
The King of Beasts
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France
Anacreon, Bacchus et L'Amour, 1848
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)
Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design
Moorish Bath (image 5)
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Tiger Observing Cranes, ca.1890
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Essay on the artist
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Paired paintings entitled The Tryst
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
A Chat by the Fireside
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
The Draught Players, 1859
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
The Duel After the Masquerade
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Jean-Leon Gerome in the Art Renewal Center
Jean-Leon Gerome at CGFA
Jean-Leon Gerome at Insecula
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
ArtMagick
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
Boston College Fine Arts Department
Brian Yoder's Art Gallery and Critic's Corner
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Flickr Photo Sharing
Humanities Web
PBase Photo Sharing
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Scancoo
Interior of a Mosque
Scancoo
Oedipus
The Athenaeum
170 works online by Gerome
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Web Sites About the Artist:
The Orientalist Gallery / Enzie Shahmiri NEW!
Illustrated Jean-Léon Gérôme blog
Other Web Sites:
FBI Art Theft Program
Pool in a Harem, stolen from the Hermitage Museum in Russia
La Repubblica Newspaper, Italy (in Italian)
Orientalist Art of the Nineteenth Century
A variety of Gérôme's paintings throughout the site
Salon Acquisitions in France by the Service des Beaux-Arts, 1864-1901 (in French)
(Vintage documentation; reproductions are monochrome but usually quite large)
Tanagra, marble sculpture, from the Salon of 1890
The Modernist Journals Project NEW!
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jean-Leon Gerome
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Arcadian Galleries
Biography of the artist
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