Jerusalem - Jean Leon Gerome
To scale 30 x 21 in on the wall
Representative Hand-applied gesso embellishment
About the Artwork
Jean-Léon Gérôme was among the most accomplished painters of the nineteenth-century French academic tradition, a student of Paul Delaroche who went on to become one of the leading exponents of Academicism, prizing polished technique, archaeological precision, and legible subject matter above painterly bravado. His travels through Egypt and the Near East fed a lifelong fascination with the region's landscapes, architecture, and daily life, and he became one of the defining figures of what is now called Orientalism, a movement that brought Western academic rigor to bear on scenes of the Islamic world and the Holy Land. Jerusalem, with its layered history and religious weight, offered Gérôme a subject that combined his interests in topography, faith, and history painting, and works like this one reflect his careful, almost documentary approach to place, built from direct observation and sustained study rather than invention.
Product Specifications
- Finished size
- 30 x 21 in
- Frame
- gold, premium resin, mitred
- Canvas
- Heavyweight Fredrix poly/cotton
- Finish
- Hand-applied gesso embellishment
- Inks
- Archival HP Latex, 100-year colorfastness
- Stretcher
- Solid poplar, kiln dried
- Hanging
- Wire and dust cover fitted
- Item
- 140221
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