The Carpet Merchant Gerome

Schooled at the ecole des beaux arts and honored by the french salon jean léon gérôme was a prolific and popular artist.

The carpet merchant gerome.

He is considered one of the most important painters from this academic period. This giclée print delivers a vivid image with maximum color accuracy and exceptional resolution. The carpet merchant c oil on canvas gerome jean leon minneapolis institute of arts mn usa the william hood dunwoody fund bridgeman images. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting greek mythology orientalism portraits and other subjects bringing the academic painting tradition to an artistic climax.

The standard for museums and galleries around the world giclée is a printing process where millions of ink droplets are sprayed onto high quality paper. Our artists focus on every detail in the painting giving each painting its unique charm in the most loyal way ensuring our confidence in the durability and eternal quality of the artwork. 81 x 55 9 cm. Brooklyn museum gift of joseph gluck 74 208 photo.

Jean léon gérôme was a french painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. The carpet merchant was created in 1887 by jean leon gerome in orientalism style. Much like eugène delacroix the traveling informed much of gérôme s work on the orientalist genre and this piece is a beautiful example of that influence. The observer looks from behind at the detailed scenery.

A considerable down payment enabled gérôme to travel and research first in 1853 to constantinople together with the actor edmond got and in 1854 to greece and turkey and the shores of the danube where he was present at a concert of russian conscripts making music under the threat of a lash. The carpet merchant by leon gerome is a hand painted oil painting on canvas. Minneapolis institute of artminneapolis united states. You can order paintings and frames online.

The carpet merchant depicts the court of the rug market in cairo which gérôme had visited in 1885. The carpet merchant of cairo 1869. Like delacroix he traveled extensively in north africa and the middle east. Several men who are affluent in their attire inspect a large rug hanging from a balcony.

Schooled at the ecole des beaux arts and honored by the french salon jean léon gérôme was a prolific and popular artist. Oil on canvas 31 7 8 x 22 in. With his masterpiece the carpet trader jean leon gerome opens a window on the carpet market in cairo as he experienced during his orient trip in the 1880s. He was also a teacher with a long list of.