Jean-Leon Gerome or Jean-Léon Gérôme Oil Paintings

Jean-Leon Gerome (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.

The finest Jean Leon Gerome oil paintings reproductions on canvas Museum oil painting masterpieces hand painted reproduction painting. Jean Leon Gerome was born in Vesoul, France.Gerome spent a trial period in the studio of a Parisian artist where he struggled, painting religious cards and selling them on the steps of churches in order to survive. After a few years, he left for Italy. In the late 1840s the French government gave Gerome a monumental commission to paint the massive Age of Augustus. In preparation for this commission, he traveled extensively in Europe and Asia Minor, documenting the customs painting of various regions. He spent two years working on the painting, tirelessly perfecting details of the various ethnic groups. With the money realized from this work, Gerome spent several months traveling and sketching in Egypt. Gerome's highly finished mythological and history paintings were anecdotal, painstaking, often melodramatic, and frequently erotic.

For the last twenty-five years of his life, he concentrated on sculpture. His studio became a meeting place for artists, actors, and writers, and he was appointed a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Gerome painting became a legendary and respected master, noted for his sardonic wit, lax discipline, regimented teaching methods.