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View of Medinet El-Fayoum

تاريخ الاضافة

17/07/2019

نوع المحتوى

Art And Craft

Category

Paintings

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Jean-Léon Gérôme
French, 1824 - 1904


Made in c. 1868/1870
oil on wood
overall: 38 × 56 cm (14 15/16 × 22 1/16 in.)
Chester Dale Fund to NGA

On View: West Building, Main Floor - Gallery 81, NGA


Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) was the most publicly honored and financially successful French artist of the second half of the 19th century. His Orientalist scenes were inspired by the many voyages he undertook to Egypt, North Africa, Syria, Asia Minor, and the Holy Land over the course of his career.

In View of Medinet El-Fayoum, c. 1868–1870, Gérôme depicts the oldest city in Egypt, located some 80 miles southwest of Cairo. Unlike many Orientalist pictures of the day—fantasies constructed in a Parisian artist's studio—this painting is informed by empirical records, while maintaining a sense of the awe and mystery Egypt inspired in French visitors.

While the Gallery owns a drawing and two prints by Gérôme,View of Medinet El-Fayoum is the first painting by the artist to enter the collection. Purchased with the Chester Dale Fund, it joins a small group of Orientalist pictures in the West Building's recently renovated 19th-century French galleries, including Delacroix's Arabs Skirmishing (1862), Renoir's Odalisque(1870), Benjamin Constant's Favorite of the Emir (1879), and Matisse's Odalisque (1923).


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Artist: Jean-Léon Gérôme

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