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- Born: May 11, 1824; Vesoul , France
- Died: January 10, 1904; Paris, France
- Nationality: French
- Art Movement: Academic Art, Romanticism, Orientalism
- Field: painting
- Influenced by: John Frederick Lewis
- Influenced on: Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
- Teachers: Charles Gleyre
- Pupils: Fernand Leger, Eugeniusz Zak, Aristide Maillol, Eugène Burnand, Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ, Albert Edelfelt, Henri-Paul Motte, Antonio de La Gándara, Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois, Albert Aublet, Eugène Girardet, Theodore Robinson, Jean-André Rixens, Richard Caton Woodville Jr., Harriet Backer
- Art institution: Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
- Friends and Co-workers: Abbott Handerson Thayer, Benjamin Constant, Henri-Pierre Picou
- Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Léon_Gérôme
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Jean-Léon Gérôme 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. He was also a teacher with a long list of students.

Jean-Léon Gérôme was born at Vesoul, Haute-Saône. He went to Paris in 1840 where he studied under Paul Delaroche, whom he accompanied to Italy (1843–44). He visited Florence, Rome, the Vatican and Pompeii, but he was more attracted to the world of nature. Taken by a fever, he was forced to return to Paris in 1844. On his return, he followed, like many other students of Delaroche, into the atelier of Charles Gleyre and studied there for a brief time. He then attended the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1846 he tried to enter the prestigious Prix de Rome, but failed in the final stage because his figure drawing was inadequate.

His painting, The Cock Fight (1846), is an academic exercise, depicting a nude young man and a lightly draped young woman with two fighting cocks, the Bay of Naples in the background. He sent this painting to the Salon of 1847, where it gained him a third-class medal. This work was seen as the epitome of the Neo-Grec movement that had formed out of Gleyre's studio (such as Henri-Pierre Picou (1824–1895) and Jean-Louis Hamon), and was championed by the influential French critic Théophile Gautier.

Gérôme abandoned his dream of winning the Prix de Rome and took advantage of his sudden success. His paintings The Virgin, the Infant Jesus and St John (private collection) and Anacreon, Bacchus and Cupid (Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France) took a second-class medal in 1848. In 1849, he produced the paintings Michelangelo (also called In his studio) (now in private collection) and A portrait of a Lady (Musée Ingres, Montauban).

In 1851, he decorated a vase, later offered by Emperor Napoleon III of France to Prince Albert, now part of the Royal Collection at St. James's Palace, London. He exhibited Bacchus and Love, Drunk, a Greek Interior and Souvenir d'Italie, in 1851; Paestum (1852); and An Idyll (1853).

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Jean-Léon Gérôme - The Life of an Artist: https://youtu.be/pVpJelpsvcM
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