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Gérôme

American  
[zhey-rohm] / ʒeɪˈroʊm /

noun

  1. Jean Léon 1824–1904, French painter and sculptor.


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Nearby, that ostensible deficiency gets reiterated in an 1889 tabletop sculpture by Auguste Rodin and an 1890 oil sketch by Jean-Léon Gérôme.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2022

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which owns “Bashi-Bazouk,” has another painting by Gérôme portraying a different model in the same colorful headdress.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2020

Some modeled for artists, including Manet, Degas and Gérôme.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2020

One of his art school teachers was Jean-Léon Gérôme, the conservative academic painter who would later cause his legacy a lot of grief.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2015

This is what Gérôme has done in the "Éminence Grise"—a scene, it will be remembered, on a staircase in a palace interior.

From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by Brownell, W. C. (William Crary)

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