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Title: Gérôme : the life and works of Jean Léon Gérôme
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hering, Fanny Field
Subjects: Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904
Publisher: New York : Published by Cassell Publishing Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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accent ol truth, and rendersmine clearly the brutal side ol these Romans, by whom human life was countedas nothing. At the same time (1859) I senl out from my atelier the Death ofCasar, which some amiable critics have called Washerwomans Da) ! I myseliam no eiieun oi quiet gayety, and I recognize and appreciate the comicality oithis joke ; but, all modesty aside, ihis composition merits more serious attention ;the presentation of the subject is dramatic and original, it is a small canvas.which could havi been executed on a larger scale without losing its character;which I cannot say oi man) oi im works. Commenting on this \cr\ passage, Bergeral says : One should read and re-read this confidential page, written so freely and SOeasily, tor it is a model oi impartial, learned, and honest criticism. Il contains 111a lew words GSrdmes entire aesthetics. Once again, 1 say, every one is notcapable i thus passingjudgmenl on himselt Erudition playsa great role in the QUJ-;iMv\s QUEJVJ DEVOEET
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LIFE AND WORKS Of //■ M LEOA GER&M1 *9 work ol the master, and all thai lu- says of the exactness of his casques and armortor his gladiators applies, equally, to all the paintings he has signed, especiallyduring later years. I find the modern naturalism, so peculiar to all the greatminds of our time, in this insatiable passion lor archaic truth which distin-guishes the productions of this painter. But 1 had always believed that inCieronie the ethnographic gifl took the place of scientific acquirement, and thaiNature had done everything for him. It remains proved henceforth that notonly has he the instinctive sense for the antique, bul that he possesses il ascholar who keeps posted in all the discoveries of critical history. What distin-guishes him from the scientist, and constitutes in him the artist, is thai hesubordinates the document to the idea, and not the idea to the document. Fromtlii — point of view, the painting called Potlice Verso is not only his chef-doeuvre, hut ,

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