Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The afterlife of paintings — what happens to them and whose hands they ...

Born on May 11, 1824, in Vesoul, France, Jean-Léon Gérôme was the son of Pierre Gérôme, a goldsmith, and Mélanie Vuillemot, daughter of a merchant. From an early age, he showed a strong inclination ...

My knowledge of art can be sketchy. I once remarked to one of Picasso’s grandsons that his gramps painted in such a “pretty blue” as we both looked on at a canvas from a certain Period. I didn’t know ...

In the late 19th century, “there was not a house in France that did not have a print by Jean-Léon Gérôme,” said Katharine Albritton in The Art Newspaper. Yet “while Gérôme was popular in his time,” ...

REEL 2669: Biographical information; notes; correspondence; other correspondence and legal documents regarding the acquisition by the Smithsonian Institution of Ferris's collection of historical ...

An October art exhibit at the William King Museum of Art will take a closer look at the a man commonly referred to as the father of the nation. As commander in chief, George Washington led the ...

Exh. Cat., Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, 1985, "Jean Leon Gerome. Ferris, 1863-1930: American Painter Historian.". https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp ...

Second- class medal for his paintings The Virgin, the Infant Jesus and St John, and Anacreon, Bacchus and Cupid , Salon of 1848 Decorated a vase that was later offered by Emperor Napoleon III of ...