Gérôme, Jean-Léon

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904). French painter and sculptor. He was a pupil of Paul Delaroche and inherited his highly finished academic style. His best-known works are his oriental scenes, the fruit of several visits to Egypt; two typical examples are in the Wallace Collection, London. They won Gérôme great popularity and he had considerable influence as an upholder of academic tradition and enemy of progressive trends in art; he opposed, for example, the acceptance by the state of the Caillebotte bequest of Impressionist pictures.

Photographs by Carol Gerten-Jackson.

• Duel after a Masked Ball
  detail, 1857 (60 Kb); Oil on canvas; The Hermitage, St. Petersburg