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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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title, sits motionless upon his horse.resolute, keen, alert, firmly grasping his long lance, ready at any instant lo repelthe attack of the infuriated animal, who has inst succeeded in unhorsing one ofhis comrades. The skillful matadors on the opposite side of the arena havemomentarily drawn off the attention of the bull, and afforded the unluckyhorseman the necessary opportunity to limp to the gate which opens tor hisretreal behind the scenes. Bach fact in the crowd ol onlookers is a study, andthe coloring truly Spanish in its warm tones The Athenceum also records atthe London Exhibition of (87a two canvases drawn from his inexhaustible storeol ()i leiltal sketches : M. t.eromes pictures will attract all visitors. The first of these is a Street Scene in (\nro. There we have architecture in sunlight and shadow ; booths andshops; a lone, vista ol broken pavement; halt a score of dogs dozing; deepshadows in the recesses. The chief human figures are two superbly armed and BATHSHEBA 1889
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/.//■/• AND WORKS OF // l\ LEOA .,7 23 mounted Arabs in conference with a merchant, who hands to one oi them a bottle Of cool water; the third Aval) leans up againsl a bulk ; a tall woman, cladin dark blue and veiled from head to loot in black, bears mi In ■ bip I basket tilledwith oranges like globes of gold; astride her shoulder (his flesh makingdelicious color with her blue robe) sits a lively and entirely naked boy ; she grasps his ankle and makes nothing of her double load. This is a charm-ing group, exhibiting sonicof the noblest qualities ofM. (Jeromes art. Before themother trots an older boy.who is naked but for a greenveil Streaming from his head ;he carries a fresh branch ofpalm. Clad in light blue andwalking behind the last goesa tall negress, bearing agreal water-jar on her head.Beyond these, two women,muffled in white from head Infoot, are bargaining with theouner oi a booth . metchaffering just on the vergeof the gloom which obscuresmore than half the interiorii i

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