Gérôme

Front matter

Frederic Taber Cooper translation

MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR EDITED BY - - M. HENRY ROUJON

GÉRÔME

(1824–1904)

IN THE SAME SERIES

REYNOLDS

HOLBEIN

VELASQUEZ

BURNE-JONES

GREUZE

LE BRUN

TURNER

CHARDIN

BOTTICELLI

MILLET

ROMNEY

RAEBURN

REMBRANDT

SARGENT

BELLINI

CONSTABLE

FRA ANGELICO

MEMLING

ROSSETTI

FRAGONARD

RAPHAEL

DÜRER

LEIGHTON

LAWRENCE

HOLMAN HUNT

HOGARTH

TITIAN

WATTEAU

MILLAIS

MURILLO

LUINI

WATTS

FRANZ HALS

INGRES

CARLO DOLCI

COROT

GAINSBOROUGH

DELACROIX

TINTORETTO

FRA LIPPO LIPPI

VAN DYCK

PUVIS DE CHAVANNES

DA VINCI

MEISSONIER

WHISTLER

GEROME

RUBENS

VERONESE

BOUCHER

VAN EYCK

MANTEGNA

IN PREPARATION

FROMENTIN

PERUGINO

PIERRE LAFITTE & CIE, PARIS

PLATE I.—YOUNG GREEKS ENGAGED IN COCK FIGHTING

(In the Luxembourg Museum, Paris)

This was Gérôme's first picture. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1847, and achieved a brilliant success. Théophile Gautier, who was a critic hard to please, bestowed upon it some enviable praise. In later years the artist found much to censure in his early work; but the public, less severely critical, admired the graceful nudity of the young forms and the combative ardour of the two adversaries.

GÉRÔME

BY ALBERT KEIM

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY FREDERIC TABER COOPER

ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY NEW YORK—PUBLISHERS

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