Jean-Léon Gérôme was the most influential teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts, producing meticulously rendered historical and Orientalist scenes that set the technical standard for academic painting. Long dismissed by modernists as photographic and old-fashioned, his work is now valued for its extraordinary precision and theatrical staging.

Works in the Collection

Gérôme – Tiger on the Watch | Orientalist Wildlife OilGérôme – Lion on the Watch | Orientalist Wildlife Oil c.1885Gérôme – L’attente (The Waiting) | Orientalist Animal OilGérôme – Tiger and Cubs | Orientalist Wildlife Oil PaintingGérôme – Profile Of A Horse | Equestrian Study Oil PaintingGérôme – Dollar, a Bay Hunter in a Loose Box | Equine OilGérôme – Marengo, Napoleon’s Arabian Horse | Oil PaintingGérôme – Lion in the Desert | Orientalist Oil Painting c.1885Gérôme – The Two Majesties | Lion & Sunset Oil Painting 1883