Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (born 1824)

Jean-Léon Gérôme

French painter and sculptor (1824–1904)

Jean-Léon Gérôme was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The range of his works includes historical paintings, Greek mythology,…