| Gerome Paintings 1824 - 1904 Painter,Sculptor,France, Orientalism |
| Prayer in a Mosque, 1892 |
| Oil on canvas |
| Private collection |
| Figure Compositions |
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| painting: |
GEJ049 |
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| size I: |
21x30.2 inches |
| price: |
420 USD |
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| painting: |
GEJ049B |
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| size II: |
24x34.5 inches |
| price: |
475 USD |
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| painting: |
GEJ049C |
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| size III: |
27x39inches |
| price: |
530 USD |
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OIL PAINTING : Prayer in a Mosque, 1892 |
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Gerome paintings were anecdotal, painstaking, often melodramatic, and frequently erotic. The surfaces of his paintings were highly finished, and Gerome was fascinated with technical virtuosity. Gerome was a good draftsman in the tight linear style of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and an inventive illustrator in the manner of Delaroche. A trip to Egypt in 1856 introduced an exotic element into his painting—e.g., "Prayer in the Mosque" . During the last 25 years of his life Gerome concentrated on sculpture. As a teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts, Gerome counted among his many pupils Odilon Redon and the American artists Thomas Eakins and J. Alden Weir. A highly successful artist, Gerome exerted great influence in the Paris art world. He was exceedingly hostile to the Impressionists and, as late as 1893, urged the government to refuse a bequest of 65 of their paintings.
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