French
1824-1904
Jean Leon Gerome Galleries
French painter, sculptor, and teacher. Son of a goldsmith, he studied in Paris and painted melodramatic and often erotic historical and mythological compositions, excelling as a draftsman in the linear style of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. His best-known works are scenes inspired by several visits to Egypt. In his later years he produced mostly sculpture. He exerted much influence as a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; his pupils included Odilon Redon and Thomas Eakins. A staunch defender of the academic tradition, he tried in 1893 to block the government acceptance of the Impressionist works bequeathed by Gustave Caillebotte.
The Carpet Merchant
The Carpet Merchant
Painting ID:: 1436
1887 .
Catalogue #349
83.5 x 64.7 cm (33 x 25.5 inches)
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
1887 .
Catalogue #349
83.5 x 64.7 cm (33 x 25.5 inches)
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jean - Leon Gerome French, 1824 - 1904 The Carpet Merchant ca. 1887. Oil on canvas. 32.8 x 25.5 in. (83.5 x 64.8 cm). The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The William Hood Dunwoody Fund.