The Carpet Merchant Jean Leon Gerome

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.

The carpet merchant jean leon gerome.

He is considered one of the most important painters from this academic period. Like delacroix he traveled extensively in north africa and the middle east. Jean léon gérôme was a french painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. 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.

The carpet merchant of cairo was created in c 1869 by jean leon gerome in orientalism style. Oil on canvas 31 7 8 x 22 in. 10 1904 paris painter. Brooklyn museum gift of joseph gluck 74 208 photo.

Jean léon gérôme french 1824 1904. Schooled at the ecole des beaux arts and honored by the french salon jean léon gérôme was a prolific and popular artist. The carpet merchant depicts the court of the rug market in cairo which gérôme had visited in 1885. A collection of 231 paintings hd description.

Like delacroix he traveled extensively in north. The carpet merchant was created in 1887 by jean leon gerome in orientalism style. The carpet merchant of cairo 1869. 81 x 55 9 cm.

He was also a teacher with a long list of. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was arguably the world s most famous living artist by 1880. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting greek mythology orientalism portraits and other subjects bringing the academic painting tradition to an artistic climax.