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| 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)
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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
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
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Study, "Age of Augustus, Birth of Christ", 1852
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) NEW! 
Jean-Leon Gerome at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  4 paintings
Musée d'Orsay, Paris Commentary on Monument to Gérôme
Musée d'Orsay, Paris Commentary on 4 paintings by Gérôme
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris 12 works by Jean-Léon Gérôme online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  (Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images)
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
National Gallery, London, UK NEW! Portrait of Armand Gérôme
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)  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
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto NEW! The Antique Pottery Painter: Sculpturæ vitam insufflat pictura
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana NEW! Sermon in the Mosque (Predication dans la Mosquee), 1903
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
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)
Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland NEW!
Haggin Museum, California The Horse Market, 1867
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts 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
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project 3 works online
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
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 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
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) 
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming Tiger Observing Cranes, ca.1890
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona NEW! Hoop Dancer, sculpture, 1891
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona NEW! Pollice Verso (Thumbs Down), 1872
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona NEW! Tanagra, sculpture
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
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) NEW! 
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
The Wallace Collection, London, UK The Draught Players, 1859
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE) NEW!
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 The Athenaeum  Numerous works online by Gerome
Jean-Leon Gerome in the Web Gallery of Art 
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
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
Brian Yoder's Art Gallery and Critic's Corner
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
Flickr Photo Sharing
Humanities Web 
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Scancoo Interior of a Mosque
Scancoo Oedipus
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site NEW!
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Web Sites Dedicated to the Artist:
The Orientalist Gallery / Enzie Shahmiri Illustrated Jean-Léon Gérôme blog
Miscellaneous 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
Articles and Reference Sites:
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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW! 
"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. | |
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 Jean-Leon Gerome: His Life, His Work
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 Jean-Leon Gerome: Monographie revisee et catalogue raisonne mis a jour
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