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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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n thecenter stood the only figure completed, and that fortunately was finished withall the perfection that characterizes the head ol tin- French school ol figurepainters. It was a nude Greek or Circassian slave girl, stood up on a dais 111 adealers quarters. The penciled sketches in outline ot two or three men were 232 III I- AND WORKS OI // ■ l.\ !/,<\ ,,/ao)// perci pi ible around this centra) subject, which is by sonic declared to be from thesame model thai furnished Ger6mes Phryne and Cleopatra. No description canbegin to do justice to the painful beauty and thrilling pathos conveyed in thefigure of the shrinking victim. The tristful story was told, not only in the faceball bidden by the sidewise bowing of the head, with its rich black locks, uponhand and arm pressed close to breast and cheek ; not only in the knitted browand swollen but tearless eyes and quivering, ball closed mouth, ujion which the lone, drawn out horror and agony had fixed an immovable anguish ; but in the
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whole lender, brunette-hued form, painted with Heroines relentless realisticfidelity to skm and flesh. The whole quivering figure plainly breathed andpalpitated the mute suffering of the ordeal, and sent forth a proto si against theunnatural indignity too deep tor expression save in an equally unnatural patienceoi dignity and endurance The suggestion was only of the purest, entirely one of sympathy and com-passion. The painting was last week placed without note or comment in aprivate exhibition of artists at the Union League Club in New York. It at onceattracted th< marked attention n deserved, and was almost unanimously pro-nounced a genuine Gerfime. It was especially interesting to the artists as show-ing the master at work, and his peculiar effects in process oi development. Alter receiving the account from Mr. Kennard, we made another efforl totrace the journalist, ibis time with success; and. on writing i him to ask hisconfirmation of these facts, we reo ived a lengthy

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