The Snake Charmer
French, 1824 - 1904 1880. Oil on canvas. 33 x 48 in. (83,8 x 122 cm). Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstowm, MA.
Painting ID:: 61861
"The Snake Charmer", by Jean-Lxon Gxrôme. Oil on canvas; on display at the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. This is not the classic painting much commented on in studies of Orientalism, but a different painting with the same name and general subject matter. Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
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Painting ID:: 80625
Jean Leon Gerome French
1824-1904
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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.
The Snake Charmer Oil on canvas
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