Sunday, November 25, 2018

Walters Art Museum: Gerome and Friends

The 4th floor of the Walters Art Museums 1974 Annex is dedicated to some of the favorite paintings actually acquired by the Walters (father and son) and they had a penchant for Academicism in all of its iterations: Historic theme, mythological themes and Orientalism.  All three of which found flower in the works of the French painter and sculptor, Jean-Léon Gérôme.  While the Walters did introduce me to Gerome, many of the works they own are among my favorites.  I'm going to break this floor into three parts and start with Gerome specifically and a few other painters and sculptors in this genre who's works on located in the first gallery and along the two corredores.
Bashi Bazouk Singing, 1868
French
Jean-Leon Gerome
1824 - 1904

Surtout la Table: Tiger Hunt, 1834 - 1836
French
Antoine-Louis Barye
1796 - 1875

Two Profile Heads of a Young Woman (Nasleh), before 1873
Austrian
Leopold Carl Muller
1834 - 1892

On the Desert, before 1867
French
Jean-Leon Gerome
1824 - 1904

Othello, circa 1873
Italian
Pietro Calvi
1833 - 1884

Arayori (A Peasant Woman), 1915
Japanese
Yoshida Homei
1875 - 1943

The Edicts of Charles V, 1861
Belgian
Jean August Hendrik Leys
1815 - 1869
 [detail below]

The Tulip Folly, 1882
French
Jean-Leon Gerome
1824 - 1904

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