Jean-Léon Gérôme
French painter and sculptor
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Jean-Léon Gérôme was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." Wikipedia
Born: May 11, 1824, Vesoul, France
Died: January 10, 1904 (age 79 years), Paris, France
Period: academic art
Known for: Painting, sculpture, teaching
Spouse: Marie Goupil (m. 1863)
Education: Paul Delaroche, Charles Gleyre
Artworks
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