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Gérôme

American  
[zhey-rohm] / ʒeɪˈroʊm /

noun

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


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Gérôme did the paintings, a fantasy retro-imagining of imperial domination, some six decades after the invasion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

The greatest offender in this category remains Gérôme.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

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

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

But they were as nothing to the questions he asked when he turned to another of the Gérôme pictures, this one being the familiar old Cleopatra and Cæsar.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)

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