French 1824-1904 Jean Leon Gerome Galleries French painter, sculptor, and teacher. Son of a goldsmith, he studied in Paris and painted melodramatic and often erotic historical and mythological compositions, excelling as a draftsman in the linear style of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. His best-known works are scenes inspired by several visits to Egypt. In his later years he produced mostly sculpture. He exerted much influence as a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; his pupils included Odilon Redon and Thomas Eakins. A staunch defender of the academic tradition, he tried in 1893 to block the government acceptance of the Impressionist works bequeathed by Gustave Caillebotte.   Related Paintings of Jean Leon Gerome :. | Tiger on the Watch | A still life with flowers | Betsy Ross | Birth of Pennsylvania | Louis XIV and Moliere |
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Pierre-Adolphe Badin
painted Portrait of Charles Coiffier, in 1837
Elisabeth LouiseVigee Lebrun
(1755-1842) French Elisabeth Louise Vigee Lebrun Galleries
Hindu painter
Richard Ettinghausen believes this work to have been painted in Agra in about 1625