The Carpet Merchant Jean Leon Gerome

Jean léon gérôme was a french painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism.

The carpet merchant jean leon gerome.

Oil on canvas 31 7 8 x 22 in. He was also a teacher with a long list of. The carpet merchant of cairo was created in c 1869 by jean leon gerome in orientalism style. Minneapolis united states schooled at the ecole des beaux arts and honored by the french salon jean léon gérôme was a prolific and popular artist.

Jean léon gérôme 11 may 1824 10 january 1904 was a french painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. Jean léon gérôme born may 11 1824 vesoul france died jan. Jean léon gérôme french 1824 1904. He is considered one of the most important painters from this academic period.

Jean léon gérôme s the carpet merchant 1887 in july of 1798 napoleon marched into egypt and defeated the turks at the battle of the pyramids weakening past breaking point the waning ottoman empire. The carpet merchant of cairo 1869. Like delacroix he traveled extensively in north africa and the middle east. Schooled at the ecole des beaux arts and honored by the french salon jean léon gérôme was a prolific and popular artist.

His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was arguably the world s most famous living artist by 1880. A collection of 231 paintings hd description. The carpet merchant depicts the court of the rug market in cairo which gérôme had visited in 1885. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting greek mythology orientalism portraits and other subjects bringing the academic painting tradition to an artistic climax.

81 x 55 9 cm. 10 1904 paris painter. The carpet merchant by jean léon gérôme leading the revival of realism in the visual arts the art renewal center arc a 501 c 3 non profit educational foundation hosts the largest online museum dedicated to realist art only and includes works by the old masters 19th century and contemporary realists as well as articles letters and other online resources.