Jean-Léon Gérôme

French, 1824 - 1904

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French painter and sculptor (1824–1904)

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Un Senateur Romain (A Roman Senator)

Jean-Léon Gérôme · in or before 1869 · etching in black on laid paper (facing _Un Senateur Romain_ by Anatole France) ·  Accession ID  1991.26.1.m

About a dozen people walk and a few ride horses across a bridge spanning river that cuts through a sandy landscape in this horizontal painting. A few wisps of clouds drift across a vivid blue sky over the horizon, which comes halfway up the composition. The waterway winds from the lower left corner into the distance parallel to the left edge of the painting. A bank of shrubs and two tall palms lean toward the water from the left bank, and brown and cream-white buildings line both sides of the water to the horizon. People sit on the low wall of the bridge in the lower left corner, and a person leads a donkey laden with sacks toward us on the far side of the deck. The bridge is shaped like a capital T laid down, so the top crossbeam spans the river. The lower branch divides the river on our side of the bridge. Some rocks and a gnarled trunk lie across this strip of land. Farther up the river and to our left, a single person walks across a second bridge made up of planks supported by rocky pilings. That bridge meets the far bank near the remains of a building with pointed arches and a tower-like minaret. Verdant green canopies of a cluster of palm trees flare over this building. People who walk and ride across the bridge create a loose line that extends to a larger gathering beyond the building. The group gathers in the dense shade of a wide-canopied tree, which grows high over a brown wall. More rooflines, including a dome and another minaret, stack along the horizon beyond the tree. The people wear robes and turbans in bright white, aquamarine blue, brick red, and black. The artist signed the painting as if he had written his name on the face of a rock in the lower right corner, “JL GEROME.”
Jean-Léon Gérôme, View of Medinet El-Fayoum, c. 1868/1870, oil on wood, Chester Dale Fund, 2013.62.1

View of Medinet El-Fayoum

Jean-Léon Gérôme · c. 1868/1870 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  2013.62.1

Jean-Léon Gérôme, Seated Arab with Pipe, c. 1864, etching on laid paper, Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp, 1999.111.21

Seated Arab with Pipe

Jean-Léon Gérôme · c. 1864 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1999.111.21

Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Dead Caesar, c. 1859, graphite on wove paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1991.187.1

The Dead Caesar

Jean-Léon Gérôme · c. 1859 · graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1991.187.1