The Carpet Merchant Gerome

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The carpet merchant gerome.

The carpet merchant of cairo 1869. Jean léon gérôme was a french painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. Schooled at the ecole des beaux arts and honored by the french salon jean léon gérôme was a prolific and popular artist. 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.

He is considered one of the most important painters from this academic period. 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. Oil on canvas 31 7 8 x 22 in.

81 x 55 9 cm. Jean léon gérôme french 1824 1904. Brooklyn museum gift of joseph gluck 74 208 photo. The carpet merchant by leon gerome is a hand painted oil painting on canvas.

This giclée print delivers a vivid image with maximum color accuracy and exceptional resolution. 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. The carpet merchant depicts the court of the rug market in cairo which gérôme had visited in 1885.

We only use the best oil paint and the finest canvas to ensure the most vivid color. Produced in around 1887 the carpet merchant portrays a scene in the cairo markets which jean léon gérôme had visited two years prior as part of his travels through the middle east and africa. Like delacroix he traveled extensively in north africa and the middle east. The carpet merchant was created in 1887 by jean leon gerome in orientalism style.

The range of his oeuvre included historical painting greek mythology orientalism portraits and other subjects bringing the academic painting tradition to an artistic climax. 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. Several men who are affluent in their attire inspect a large rug hanging from a balcony. The carpet merchant c oil on canvas gerome jean leon minneapolis institute of arts mn usa the william hood dunwoody fund bridgeman images.