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Title: Gérôme : the life and works of Jean Léon Gérôme
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hering, Fanny Field
Subjects: Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904
Publisher: New York : Published by Cassell Publishing Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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e same picture all their lives long. Without havingwritten a single line, that we know ot at least, M. Heroine has a literary tendencywhich betrays Itself in the choice ot Ins subjects, in erudition ot detail, andarchaical exactitude. It is not we, indeed, who will find fault with him for this.This kind ol transposition renews the youth of Art. and infuses a little new bloodinto its veins. M. Heroine possesses also the ethnographic perception so neces-~.il vto the modern painter to-day. when so many races, which yesterday were un-known, sprine, up to the light and enter into the ever-widening circle of humantypes to be analyzed. He has proved it by his Recreation of the Russian Soldiers,his irnauts <// Prayer, and Ins Egyptian Recruits. The Cock FightjOaz GreekInterior,and the AgeoJ Augustus have shown us how familiar he is with ancienttimes and with what accuracy be can make them live again ; he can even becontemporaneous and produce tragic effects with a common carnival brawl. To
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I I.EOIATKA AND I I VI ////• \ND WORKS, Ol // I \ //<M G&R 83 elevate Harlequin ami Pierrot to the heighl oi serious art, and show the palloi oldeath beneath the powder ol tin- disguise this was not an easy task. That hehas succeeded ha. been amply proven, rhis year M. Gerdrne ha- onlj traveledin lime he exhibits three antique pictures: Ccesar; Ave Ceesar; Imperator!morituri /<■ salutant,and King Candaules. Ccesar, the largest oi these three canvases, and the only one oi histotproportions, engrosses the e) e, as fai as it can Ik- perceived, by lis sinister, solitary,and mysterious appearance, even before the subject lias been distinguished. In adeserted hall, whose perspective shows onl) the pedestals ol columns and the feetoi statues, through the shadows oi evening which are falling, one descries at firstan armchair overturned upon the steps oi a dais; then, under a mass ol whitedraperies, disordered and bloodstained, a dead body, whose I now is crowned withleaves ol be

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