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قراءة كتاب Gérôme
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MASTERPIECES
IN COLOUR
EDITED BY - -
M. HENRY ROUJON
GÉRÔME
(1824–1904)
IN THE SAME SERIES
- REYNOLDS
- HOLBEIN
- VELASQUEZ
- BURNE-JONES
- GREUZE
- LE BRUN
- TURNER
- CHARDIN
- BOTTICELLI
- MILLET
- ROMNEY
- RAEBURN
- REMBRANDT
- SARGENT
- BELLINI
- CONSTABLE
- FRA ANGELICO
- MEMLING
- ROSSETTI
- FRAGONARD
- RAPHAEL
- DÜRER
- LEIGHTON
- LAWRENCE
- HOLMAN HUNT
- HOGARTH
- TITIAN
- WATTEAU
- MILLAIS
- MURILLO
- LUINI
- WATTS
- FRANZ HALS
- INGRES
- CARLO DOLCI
- COROT
- GAINSBOROUGH
- DELACROIX
- TINTORETTO
- FRA LIPPO LIPPI
- VAN DYCK
- PUVIS DE CHAVANNES
- DA VINCI
- MEISSONIER
- WHISTLER
- GEROME
- RUBENS
- VERONESE
- BOUCHER
- VAN EYCK
- MANTEGNA
IN PREPARATION
- FROMENTIN
- PERUGINO
PIERRE LAFITTE & CIE, PARIS
PLATE I.—YOUNG GREEKS ENGAGED IN COCK FIGHTING
(In the Luxembourg Museum, Paris)
This was Gérôme's first picture. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1847, and achieved a brilliant success. Théophile Gautier, who was a critic hard to please, bestowed upon it some enviable praise. In later years the artist found much to censure in his early work; but the public, less severely critical, admired the graceful nudity of the young forms and the combative ardour of the two adversaries.
GÉRÔME
BY ALBERT KEIM
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
BY FREDERIC TABER COOPER
ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT
REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
NEW YORK—PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
| Page | |
| Introduction | 11 |
| Life of Gérôme | 17 |
| The Artist's Work | 43 |
| The Art of Gérôme | 72 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Plates | |||
| I. | Young Greeks Engaged in Cock Fighting | Frontispiece | |
| (In the Luxembourg Museum) | |||
| Page | |||
| II. | Reception of the Siamese Ambassadors | 14 | |
| (In the Versailles Museum) | |||
| III. | Anacreon, with Bacchus and Cupid | 24 | |
| (In the Toulouse Museum) | |||
| IV. | Pollice Verso | 34 | |
| (In a Private Collection, United States) | |||
| V. | The Prisoner | 40 | |
| (In the Nantes Museum) | |||
| VI. | The Last Prayer | 50 | |
| (In a Private Collection, United States) | |||
| VII. | The Vendor of Rugs | 60 | |
| (In a Private Collection, United States) | |||
| VIII. | The Two Majesties | 70 | |
| (In a Private Collection, United States) | |||
I
INTRODUCTION
Gérôme has his allotted place among the illustrious French painters of the Nineteenth Century. He achieved success, honours, official recognition; and he deserved them, if not for the compelling personality of his temperament, at least for his assiduous industry, his accurate, methodical, and picturesque way of seeing people and things, and the amazing and fertile variety both of his choice and his interpretation of subjects.
He was a pupil of Paul Delaroche and seems to have inherited the