Jean Leon Gerome art links 

Jean-Léon Gérôme: Black Bashi-Bazouk, ca.1869
Used with permission from The Renaissance Cafe (the Art Renewal Center; see "image archives" below)

Original works by Jean-Léon Gérôme available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Jean-Leon Gerome at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!

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

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Study, "Age of Augustus, Birth of Christ", 1852

Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)  

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!  

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston   NEW!

National Gallery, London, UK
Portrait of Armand Gérôme

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa  
2 paintings and 2 sculptures

Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)  
Réception des ambassadeurs siamois par l'empereur Napoléon III au palais de Fontainebleau

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.   NEW!

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  
Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
The Antique Pottery Painter: Sculpturæ vitam insufflat pictura

Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK

Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Sermon in the Mosque (Predication dans la Mosquee), 1903

Brooklyn Museum, New York City

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

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
6 works by or related to the artist

Dahesh Museum, New York City (Zoomable)
6 works online

Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Connecticut
The Chess Players, ca.1870-73 (a poor scan)

Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland   NEW!

Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Wisconsin
Portrait of Cécile Vitet, ca.1850

Haggin Museum, California
The Horse Market, 1867

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.   NEW!

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
The Hoop Dancer, ca.1890

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
Danseuse á la Pomme (Dancer with an Apple), 1891

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
The Grief of the Pasha, 1882
The Muezzin (The Call to Prayer), 1866

Los Angeles County Museum of Art   NEW!

Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, Oklahoma
A painting by Gérôme is online, but the scan is so small it's hard to make out

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Interior of a Mosque

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
The Two Majesties

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
The Carpet Merchant, ca.1887

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
Study for 'In the Harem', graphite drawing, 1876

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
Vanitas (despairing figure), graphite drawing, 1863

Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France
Anacreon, Bacchus et L'Amour, 1848

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)  

National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Tiger Observing Cranes, ca.1890

Philadelphia Museum of Art   NEW!

Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Hoop Dancer, sculpture, 1891

Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Pollice Verso (Thumbs Down), 1872

Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Tanagra, sculpture

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

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 Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)  

The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas

The Wallace Collection, London, UK   NEW!

The Walters Art Museum, Maryland   NEW!

Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)

Smithsonian American Art Museum National 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)

 

Art Signature Dictionary   NEW!

Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Jean-Leon Gerome at The Art Renewal Center

Jean-Leon Gerome at The Athenaeum  
Numerous works online by Gerome

Jean-Leon Gerome in the Web Gallery of Art  

Jean-Leon Gerome in the WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Jean-Leon Gerome at ArtMagick

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)

Boston College Fine Arts Department

Jean-Leon Gerome at CGFA  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)

RKD Netherlands Imagebase   NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions

State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site

USC Annenberg School for Communication

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The Orientalist Gallery / Enzie Shahmiri
Illustrated Jean-Léon Gérôme blog

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
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jean-Leon Gerome  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting

RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History  

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

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside Jean-Leon Gerome: His Life, His Work search inside Jean-Leon Gerome: Monographie revisee et catalogue raisonne mis a jour