JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME (1824-1904)

CHEVAL PUR-SANG, 1883

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Sculptures
BIOGRAPHY

Jean-Léon GÉRÔME (1824-1904)

 

Born in Vesoul May 11, 1824, died January 10, 1904 in Paris. Painter, engraver and sculptor, we owe him mythological compositions, religious and oriental subjects, nudes as well as many animated landscapes. He began at the Salon of 1847 and was a pupil of Delaroche and Gleyre. He is considered as  the leader of the neo-Greek or neo-Pompeian style.

 

MUSÉE :

Paris (musée du Louvre, musée d’Orsay), Amsterdam, Amiens, Chantilly, Gray, Londres (Wallace Collection), Lunéville, Montpellier, Rouen, Toulouse, Versailles, etc.

 

Réf. 6098

Bronze with brown patina

Numbered P 314
Signed “GEROME” on the front of the terrace and stamp of the founder “SIOT-DECAUVILLE Fondeur Paris”

 

DIMENSIONS :
– Hauteur : 31,5 cm
– Longueur: 38 cm
– Profondeur: 11 cm

 

PROVENANCE : Private collection

Gérald M. Ackerman: “Jean Léon Gérôme”, Monography and Catalogue raisonné, ACR Editions, 2000
Reproduced p.385 under n°S11-B2
A similar exemplary is presented at the Smith College museum, Springfield (Massachussets)

 

 

 

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