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Jean-LĂ©on GĂ©rĂŽme
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GĂ©rĂŽme, Jean-LĂ©on: Ave Caesar! Morituri Te Salutant (Hail Caesar! We Who Are About to Die Salute You) Ave Caesar! Morituri Te Salutant (Hail Caesar! We Who Are About to Die Salute You), oil on canvas by Jean-LĂ©on GĂ©rĂŽme, 1859; in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. 93.1 × 145.4 cm.

Jean-LĂ©on GĂ©rĂŽme

French artist
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Jean-LĂ©on GĂ©rĂŽme (born May 11, 1824, Vesoul, France—died Jan. 10, 1904, Paris) was a painter, sculptor, and teacher, one of the most prominent late 19th-century academic artists in France. GĂ©rĂŽme, whose father was a goldsmith, studied with Paul Delaroche. His historical and mythological compositions, such as Pygmalion and Galatea, were anecdotal, painstaking, often melodramatic, and frequently erotic. The surfaces of his paintings were highly finished, and he was fascinated with technical virtuosity. He was a...

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