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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

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

From Washington Post Dec. 30, 2020

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

Though little documentation on the originals exists, inferences about Finn’s style and palette can be drawn from the fact that he had studied under the French academic master Jean-Léon Gérôme.

From New York Times Mar. 2, 2016

Such men as Gérôme and Alma-Tadema plan their pictures most carefully, and so did Paul Veronese, and it requires a thorough and practical knowledge of perspective.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh

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