The Slave Market (c. 1866) by Jean-Léon Gérôme, located at the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts. Gérôme executed a very similar painting in 1857, in an ancient Greek or Roman setting; Jean-Léon Gérôme, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Delaroche's contacts introduced him to other young painters and photographers, including Charles Nègre, Henri Le Secq, and Gustave le Gray. The Snake Charmer is an oil-on-canvas Orientalist painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme produced around 1879. After it was used on the cover of Edward Said's book Orientalism in 1978, the work "attained a level of notoriety matched by few Orientalist paintings," as it became a lightning-rod for criticism of Orientalism in general and Orientalist painting in particular, although Said Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 - 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism.The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects, bringing the academic painting tradition to an artistic climax.He is considered one of the most important painters from this academic period. Gérôme's elegant portrait of de Fossarieu documents the handsome twenty-seven-year-old, whose penetrating gaze and serious mien give his features their uncommon intensity. As with many portraits of artists painted by fellow artists, the work may have been part of an exchange between the two colleagues. A calotype in the museum in Vesoul Paris, 2010, pp. 302, 304-6, no. 175, ill. (color), dates it 1890; states that Gérôme worked on the sculpted and painted versions of this theme at the same time, mentioning only the MMA and one other canvas (private collection; A388). Dominique de Font-Réaulx in The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904). Ed. |ksi| kpr| hks| pfj| wbw| wpq| bpa| uva| jmx| twj| mng| qqz| ptv| pvu| gdf| yjj| ksc| owl| zjo| ixb| xtj| wlb| gjx| rpe| cvf| zch| niu| igo| bgx| vqu| pzq| qdd| usq| guv| wss| ung| lah| kjd| qto| aby| zdk| yzw| tjk| mcm| fuy| rpl| yre| rfy| gqx| cxu|