Academic Art

Consummatum est is an 1867 religious oil on canvas painting in the Academic style by French artist and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Saint Jerome is an 1874 religious oil on canvas painting in the Academic style by French artist and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme.

The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayers is an 1883 religious oil on canvas painting in the Academic style by French artist and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Bathsheba is an 1889 religious oil on canvas painting in the Academic and Orientalist style by French artist and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme.

The Prisoner is an 1861 seascape oil on canvas painting in the Academic and Orientalist style by French artist and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Dance of the Almeh is an 1863 genre oil on panel painting in the Academic and Orientalist style by French artist and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Self Portrait is an 1886 self-portrait oil on canvas painting in the Academic style by French artist and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Tiger is a 19th-century animal oil on canvas painting in the Academic style by French artist and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Duel with the sword of two Arab warriors is a 19th-century genre oil on canvas painting in the Academic and Orientalist style by French artist and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Almeh Performing the Sword Dance is an 1876 genre oil on canvas painting in the Academic and Orientalist style by French artist and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme. Almeh’s in Egypt Throughout the Arab world, an almah is a term used to describe a young female dancer, often associated with traditional dance forms. These dances are sometimes

Night is an 1850 allegorical nude academic oil on canvas painting by French painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Pool in a Harem is an 1876 realist painting by French academic artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. Gérôme, it has been noted, was perhaps the most famous artist in the world in the 1880s. He was an Academic painter with a special interest in antiquity and Oriental subjects. This work portrays the languid atmosphere of a harem

Bénédictine is an 1896 poster by Alphonse Mucha, an artist of the Czech and Central European Art Nouveau period who specialized in illustrations.

The Sahlab Vendor, Cairo is an 1866 Orientalist painting by Austrian artist Ludwig Deutsch. Analysis of The Sahlab Vendor, Cairo Ludwig Deutsch was an Austrian painter working in Paris in the 19th-century tradition of Orientalism which The Sahlab Vendor, Cairo is a great example of. This 1866 picture was painted after his first Middle Eastern

Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry’s nude, The Pearl and the Wave is painted delicately with the realism of flesh colors and lines. The model looks back over her shoulder as if disturbed by the viewer. The 1862 painting, titled La Perle et la vague in the artist’s native French, was described by Kenyon Cox as the most perfect

Ophelia (Pause for Thought) is a painting from 1870 by artist Pierre Auguste Cot depicting Ophelia from the Shakespeare play Hamlet. Cot was a French Academic painter and firm friends with another Academician, Bouguereau. They share a similar artistic style, but Cot displays in this painting at least a sensitivity to the psychological, while Bouguereau

William Blake Richmond was an English painter of some distinction. Here in Venus and Anchises, the goddess of love visits her chosen lover Anchises. Their love bears them a son Aeneas who was to go on to heroically found the city of Rome. Venus is borne along on a carriage of blossoming flowers that is

Arnaut Smoking is an 1865 orientalist painting by French Academic artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. Analysis of Arnaut Smoking In Arnaut Smoking (also known as Arnaut fumant) from 1865, again Jean-Léon Gérôme reveals his fascination with other cultures here as his protagonist Arnaut is in Middle Eastern dress having just drawn smoke from a hookah pipe. The

Napoleon in Egypt is an 1863 history painting by French Academic artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. Analysis of Napoleon in Egypt Napoleon in Egypt by famous academic painter Jean-Léon Gérôme is evidence of and an example of the European taste for exoticism in art in the 19th century. Painted in 1863, it was expeditions and accounts of

On the Desert is an 1867 history painting by French Academic artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. Analysis of On the Desert Orientalist painter Jean-Léon Gérôme visited the East a number of times and On the Desert was likely inspired by his early trips in 1854 and 1867. We see a young Arab man with two hunting dogs