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Jean-Léon Gérôme

Study for Moorish Bath, ca. 1874

Description

Maker

  • Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1824-1904, French

Title

Study for Moorish Bath

Year

ca. 1874

Medium

black chalk on wove paper

Dimensions

35.9 x 22.5 cm (14 1/8 x 8 7/8 inches) (sight under glass)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed in graphite near LC: JL Gerome

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Museum purchase: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Barnet Fain, Mrs. Frank Mauran, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Morris, Jr., Mrs. Alfred Morris, Sr., and the Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

1987.007

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

French Drawings in the Time of Degas

August 19, 2005 - January 22, 2006

Gérôme, one of the most prominent academic painters of the late 19th century, drew and painted from the nude model throughout his career. This highly refined work is a study for the exquisitely rendered figure in RISD’s painting by Gérôme: Moorish Bath, ca. 1874-77 (66.280).

Nude Figure

December 20, 1996 - April 20, 1997

Related

Jean-Léon Gérôme

Moorish Bath, ca. 1874-1877

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