| ISBN |
8857207021 (pbk.) |
| 9788857207025 (pbk.) |
| Author |
Gérôme, Jean Léon 1824-1904 |
| Title |
The spectacular art of Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) / [general editors : Laurence des Cars, Dominique de Font-Réaulx and Édouard Papet] |
| Publisher |
[Milan] : Skira, Paris : Musée d'Orsay, 2010 |
| Physical desc. |
370 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm. |
| Note |
Catalogue of an exhibition held at: the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 15 June-12 September 2010; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 19 October 2010-23 January 2011; and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 1 March-22 May 2011. |
| 2011 printing |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 358-[363]) and indexes. |
| Contents |
A precise, perverse kind of beauty / Guy Cogeval -- Picturing Gérôme / Laurence des Cars, Dominique de Font-Réaulx and Édouard Papet -- Gérôme: painter of histories / Laurence des Cars -- Gérôme before the tribunal: the painter's early reception / Scott C. Allan -- History according to Gérôme / François de Vergnette -- Gérôme: working in the era of industrial reproduction / Pierre-Lin Renié --- Gérôme in the gilded age / Mary G. Morton -- Gérôme and photography: accurate depictions of an imagined world / Dominique de Font-Réaulx -- The paradox of realism: Gérôme in the Orient / Sophie Makariou and Charlotte Maury -- "Father Polychrome": the sculpture of Jean-Léon Gérôme / Édouard Papet -- Painting the moment just afterward, or, Gérôme as film-maker / Dominique Païni -- Chronology / Philippe Mariot -- Anthology / Laurence des Cars, Dominique de Font-Réaulx and Édouard Papet. |
| Person as subject |
Gérôme, Jean Léon -- 1824-1904 |
| Gérôme, Jean Léon -- 1824-1904 -- Exhibitions |
| Subject |
Painting, French -- 19th century -- Exhibitions |
| Sculpture, French -- 19th century -- Exhibitions |
| Added name(s) |
Des Cars, Laurence ed. |
| Font-Réaulx, Dominique de ed. |
| Papet, Édouard ed. |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
J. Paul Getty Museum |
| Musée d'Orsay |
| Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza |
