Chapter 5
From an early age, Gérôme takes an interest in sculpture, but he does not devote himself to it until 1878 with the piece entitled The Gladiators, inspired by the central group in one of his emblematic works, Pollice Verso (1872). Basing himself on the archaeological discoveries of his day, he designs his sculptures to be polychromed, making the figures seem to spring to life. Gérôme enjoys becoming a modern Pygmalion. In the 1880s and 1890s, the artist’s atelier itself is a recurring subject in his creations: there is a host of cross-references between his painting and sculpture.
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- Autor:
- Jean-Léon Gérôme
- Título:
- Tanagra
- Fecha:
- 1890
- Tipo:
- Bronze
- Medidas:
- 152 x 67 x 70 cm
- Úbicacion:
- Musée Georges-Garret, Vesoul
- Numero de inventario
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- Autor:
- Jean-Léon Gérôme
- Título:
- Working in Marble (The Artist sculping Tanagra)
- Fecha:
- 1895
- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas
- Medidas:
- 50.5 x 39.5 cm
- Úbicacion:
- Dahesh museum of Art, Greenwich
- Numero de inventario
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- Autor:
- Jean-Léon Gérôme
- Título:
- Pigmalion and Galatea
- Fecha:
- 1892
- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas
- Medidas:
- 88.9 x 68.6 cm
- Úbicacion:
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York. Gift of Louis C. Raegner, 1927
- Numero de inventario
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- Autor:
- Jean-Léon Gérôme
- Título:
- Corinth
- Fecha:
- ca. 1903
- Tipo:
- Painted plaster, coloured wax and wire
- Medidas:
- 47.5 x 33 x 30 cm
- Úbicacion:
- Musée d'Orsay, París
- Numero de inventario