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Jean-Léon Gérôme

1824 - 1904

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Jean-Léon Gérôme (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ leɔ̃ ʒeʁom]; 11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) 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." The range of his works includes historical paintings, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects. He is considered among the most important painters from the academic period and was, with Meissonier and Cabanel, one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire". He was also a teacher with a long list of students, including Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, and Osman Hamdi Bey, among others. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Léon Gérôme is the 139th most popular painter (up from 152nd in 2019), the 452nd most popular biography from France (up from 470th in 2019) and the 39th most popular French Painter.

Jean-Léon Gérôme is most famous for his paintings of ancient Greece and Rome.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jean-Léon Gérôme ranks 139 out of 2,023. Before him are Zeuxis, André Derain, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Mark Rothko, Charles Le Brun, and Mary Cassatt. After him are Edward Hopper, Émile Bernard, Lili Elbe, Man Ray, Lavinia Fontana, and Antonello da Messina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Jean-Léon Gérôme ranks 7. Before him are William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Bedřich Smetana, Alexandre Dumas fils, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Kirchhoff, and Stonewall Jackson. After him are Maria Alexandrovna, Eugène Boudin, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Paul Broca, Dayananda Saraswati, and Pierre Janssen. Among people deceased in 1904, Jean-Léon Gérôme ranks 10. Before him are Jamsetji Tata, Murad V, Isabella II of Spain, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and Friedrich Ratzel. After him are Henry Morton Stanley, Eadweard Muybridge, Gabriel Tarde, Henri Fantin-Latour, Abai Qunanbaiuly, and Vasily Vereshchagin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Léon Gérôme ranks 452 out of 6,770. Before him are Hans Bethe (1906), Anouk Aimée (1932), Ernest Renan (1823), Henry of Flanders (1174), Jean Genet (1910), and Nicolas Malebranche (1638). After him are Robert I of France (860), Paul Barras (1755), Émile Bernard (1868), Theodor Eicke (1892), Leslie Caron (1931), and André Le Nôtre (1613).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Jean-Léon Gérôme ranks 39. Before him are Pierre Bonnard (1867), Odilon Redon (1840), Gustave Moreau (1826), Jean Dubuffet (1901), André Derain (1880), and Charles Le Brun (1619). After him are Émile Bernard (1868), Jean Fouquet (1420), Fernand Léger (1881), Robert Delaunay (1885), Robert Campin (1375), and Frédéric Bazille (1841).

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