Jean-Léon Gérôme



Description	French painter, drawer and sculptor
Date of birth/death	11 May 1824	10 January 1904
Location of birth/death	Vesoul	9th arrondissement of Paris
Work location	Paris; Algeria; Greece; Florence; Rome; Constantinople
Authority file	: Q212499 VIAF: 22153153 ISNI: 000000012123607X ULAN: 500115563 LCCN: n50016499 NLA: 35120372 WGA: g/gerome Open Library: OL4645907A DBNL: gero006 GND: 119324695 SUDOC: 027423093 BNF: 12014496k BIBSYS: 11017714 NKC: jo2002102715 Léonore: [ LH//1124/65] BNE: XX855443 CiNii: DA02931108 NLP: a0000003112993 RKD: 31107 J9U: 987007499158305171 Koninklijke: 069601380 WorldCat

Portraits of Jean-Léon Gérôme[edit]

Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1860, by Etienne Neurdein
Jean-Léon Gerome by Henri Oulevay, 1868
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Bust by
label QS:Len,"Bust by"

label QS:Lpl,"Popiersie autorstwa"

label QS:Lfr,"Buste par"
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Self-portrait

1886
1892
Jean-Léon Gérôme, by Aimé Morot, 1897

Works[edit]

Genre Paintings[edit]

Two Italian peasant women and a Child

1849
The Duel After the Masquerade

1859
The End of the Session

1886
Working in Marble

1890

History Paintings[edit]

Young Greeks Attending a Cock Fight

1846
The leap of Marcus Curtius

1850-1855
King Candaules

1859
Hail Caesar! We Who Are about to Die Salute You

1859
Diogenes

1860
Phryne before the Areopagus

1861
Socrates seeking Alcibiades in the house of Aspasia

1861
Louis XIV and Molière

1862
Jean Bart

1862
Napoleon in Egypt

circa 1863
date QS:P,+1863-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Reception of the Siamese ambassadors by the Emperor Napoleon III at the Palace of Fontainebleau, June 27, 1861

1864
The Death of Caesar

1867
Napoleon in Egypt

1867
Bonaparte Before the Sphinx

1867-1868
Pollice Verso

1872
L'Eminence Grise

1873
Chariot Race

1876
Reception of the Grand Condé at Versailles

1878
Cave Canem

1881
The Tulip Folly

1882
A Roman Slave Market

circa 1884
date QS:P,+1884-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Slave Market in Rome

circa 1884
date QS:P,+1884-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Tanagra Workshop

circa 1893
date QS:P,+1893-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Painting Breathes Life into Sculpture

1893
The Retreating Lions
label QS:Len,"The Retreating Lions"

label QS:Lpl,"Powrót lwów"

label QS:Lfr,"La rentrée des félins"

1902

Landscape and Animal Paintings[edit]

The Two Majesties

1883
Tiger and Cubs

1884
Lion on the Watch

circa 1885
date QS:P,+1885-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Tiger on the Watch

circa 1888
date QS:P,+1888-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Solitude

1890
Tiger
label QS:Len,"Tiger"

label QS:Lpl,"Tygrys"

Unknown date
Unknown date

Mythology Paintings[edit]

Anacreon, Bacchus and Eros

1848
Night

between circa 1850 and circa 1855
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1855-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Daphnis and Chloe

1852
Allegory of Night

1859
Pygmalion and Galatea

1890
Pygmalion and Galatea

1890
Venus Rising

1890
Leda and the Swan

1895
Truth Coming Out of Her Well

1896
Androcles
label QS:Len,"Androcles"

label QS:Lpl,"Androkles"

1902

Oriental Paintings[edit]

Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert
label QS:Len,"Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert"

label QS:Lpl,"Egipscy rekruci przekraczający pustynię"

1857
The Lute Player
label QS:Len,"The Lute Player"

1859
The Grain Threshers, Egypt

1859
Albanian janissary troops in Cairo, Egypt

1861
The Prisoner
label QS:Len,"The Prisoner"

label QS:Lpl,"Więzień"

label QS:Lfr,"Le Prisonnier"

1861
Dance of the Almeh

1863
Prayer in the Mosque
label QS:Len,"Prayer in the Mosque"

label QS:Lpl,"Modlitwa w meczecie"

label QS:Lfr,"Prière dans la Mosquée"

circa 1865
date QS:P,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
An Albanian with his Dog
label QS:Len,"An Albanian with his Dog"

label QS:Lpl,"Albańczyk z psem"

label QS:Lfr,"Arnaoute et son chien"

1865
Arnaut smoking in Cairo, Egypt
label QS:Len,"Arnaut smoking in Cairo, Egypt"

label QS:Lpl,"Albańczyk palący w Kairze, Egipt"

1865
The Slave Market

circa 1866
date QS:P,+1866-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Old clothes merchant in Cairo
label QS:Len,"Old clothes merchant in Cairo"

label QS:Lpl,"Stary sprzedawca ubrań w Kairze"

label QS:Lfr,"Marchand de vieilles vêtements au Caire"

1866
The runners of the Pasha

1867
On the Desert

before 1867
date QS:P,+1867-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1867-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Arnaut with two dogs whippets

1867
Western Wall
label QS:Len,"Western Wall"

label QS:Lpl,"Ściana Płaczu"

1867
View of Medinet El-Fayoum

circa 1868-1870
Black Bashi-Bazouk

circa 1869
date QS:P,+1869-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Almehs Playing Draughts
label QS:Len,"Almehs Playing Draughts"

1870
Arabs Crossing the Desert
label QS:Len,"Arabs Crossing the Desert"

label QS:Lpl,"Arabowie przemierzający pustynię"

1870
Moorish Bath

1870
Dispute of Arabs

1871
Prayer in the Mosque

1871
Sale of Slaves in Cairo

1871
The Negro Master of the Hounds

1871
The Arab and his Steed
label QS:Len,"The Arab and his Steed"

label QS:Lpl,"Arab i jego rumak"

1872
A Bischari Warrior
label QS:Len,"A Bischari Warrior"

label QS:Lpl,"Wojownik Biszarin"

Unknown date
Unknown date
The Almeh
label QS:Len,"The Almeh"

label QS:Lpl,"Almeh"

1873
Markos Botsaris
label QS:Len,"Markos Botsaris"

1874
Horses Held by a Slave (The halt)
label QS:Len,"Horses Held by a Slave (The halt)"

label QS:Lpl,"Konie trzymane przez niewolnika (Postój)"

label QS:Lfr,"Chevaux tenus par un esclave (La Halte)"

1875
Pool in a Harem

circa 1876
date QS:P,+1876-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
The Standing Bearer, Unfolding the Holy Flag

1876
A Muezzin Calling from the Top of a Minaret the Faithful to Prayer
label QS:Len,"A Muezzin Calling from the Top of a Minaret the Faithful to Prayer"

label QS:Lpl,"Muezzin wzywający z wierzchołka minaretów wiernych do modlitwy"

1879
The Snake Charmer

circa 1879
date QS:P,+1879-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Leaving the Oasis

1880s
date QS:P,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
The Wailing Wall

1880
The Sentinel at the Sultan’s Tomb

1880
The Bath

1880-1885
Before the audience

circa 1881
date QS:P,+1881-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
A Joke
label QS:Len,"A Joke"

label QS:Lpl,"Żart"

label QS:Lfr,"Une plaisanterie"

1882
The Grief of the Pasha

1882
Cafe House, Cairo (Casting Bullets)

1884
Japanese Emploring a Deity

circa 1885
date QS:P,+1885-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Dance of Albanians
label QS:Len,"Dance of Albanians"

label QS:Lpl,"Taniec Albańczyków"

1886
The Carpet Merchant

circa 1887
date QS:P,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
A Sultan at Prayer
label QS:Len,"A Sultan at Prayer"

1887
The Rose

1887
Le Barde Noir
label QS:Len,"Le Barde Noir"

label QS:Lpl,"Czrny bard"

circa 1888
date QS:P,+1888-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
The Marabou

1888
The Guard

1889
Nude woman

1889
Prayers in the Mosque
label QS:Len,"Prayers in the Mosque"

1892
Return to the Palace
label QS:Len,"Return to the Palace"

label QS:Lpl,"Powrót do pałacu"

1892
Harem Women Feeding Pigeons in a Courtyard
label QS:Len,"Harem Women Feeding Pigeons in a Courtyard"

label QS:Lpl,"Kobiety z haremu karmiące gołębie na dziedzińcu"

1894
Whirling Dervishes
label QS:Len,"Whirling Dervishes"

label QS:Lpl,"Wirujący derwisze"

circa 1895
date QS:P,+1895-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
The Gulf of Aqaba

1897
Women at the Bath

circa 1898
date QS:P,+1898-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Mufti Reading in His Prayer Stool
label QS:Len,"Mufti Reading in His Prayer Stool"

label QS:Lpl,"Mufti czytający w swoim miejscu modlitwy"

circa 1900
date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
After the Bath

Unknown date
Unknown date

Portrait Paintings[edit]

Portrait of a Woman

1851
Charlotte de Rothschild

1866
Portrait of Marie Gérôme

circa 1867-1870
Veiled Circassian Beauty
label QS:Len,"Veiled Circassian Beauty"

1876
Rachel, « La Tragédie »
1859

Religious Paintings[edit]

Saint Jerome

1874
The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer

1883
Bathsheba

1889
Moses on Mount Sinai
label QS:Len,"Moses on Mount Sinai"

label QS:Lpl,"Mojżesz na Górze Synaj"

1895-1900

Other techniques[edit]

Sword dancer
label QS:Len,"Sword dancer"

label QS:Lpl,"Tańcząca z mieczem"

Unknown date
Unknown date
Dancer with tambourine
label QS:Len,"Dancer with tambourine"

label QS:Lpl,"Tancerka z tamburynem"

Unknown date
Unknown date

Sculptures[edit]

Anacreon with the Infants Bacchus and Cupid
label QS:Len,"Anacreon with the Infants Bacchus and Cupid"

label QS:Lpl,"Anakreont z małym Bachusem i Kupidynem"

1878
Tanagra
label QS:Len,"Tanagra"

1890
Dancer with an apple
label QS:Len,"Dancer with an apple"

label QS:Lpl,"Tancerka z jabkiem"

circa 1890
date QS:P,+1890-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Sarah Bernhardt

circa 1895
date QS:P,+1895-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Christ Entering Jerusalem
label QS:Len,"Christ Entering Jerusalem"

label QS:Lpl,"Chrystus wjeżdżający do Jerozolimy"

1897
Bonaparte Entering Cairo
label QS:Len,"Bonaparte Entering Cairo"

label QS:Lpl,"Bonaparte wjeżdżający do Kairu"

circa 1897
date QS:P,+1897-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Frederic the Great
label QS:Len,"Frederic the Great"

label QS:Lpl,"Fryderyk Wielki"

label QS:Lfr,"Frédéric le Grand"

1899
Equestrian Statue of the Duc d'Aumale in Chantilly
label QS:Len,"Equestrian Statue of the Duc d'Aumale in Chantilly"

label QS:Lpl,"Pomnik konny księcia d'Aumale w Chantilly"

1899
The Oracle with snakes
label QS:Len,"The Oracle with snakes"

label QS:Lpl,"Wyrocznia z wężami"

label QS:Lfr,"L'Oracle aux serpents"

circa 1899
date QS:P,+1899-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Paul Reclus
Pollice verso