"Pool in a Harem" and other works of Jean-Leon Gerome at the Hermitage
The State Hermitage Museum opened an exhibition dedicated to the return of museum paintings by Jean-Leon Gerome, "Pool in a Harem"
ET, November 2, 2011 - February 5, 2012
The State Hermitage Museum (Room number 342 of the Winter Palace) opened an exhibition dedicated to the return of museum paintings by Jean-Leon Gerome, "Pool in a Harem».
| Pool in a Harem. Around 1876 France Oil on canvas Source: |
«Pool in a Harem" was executed in 1875 by order of Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich ( the future Emperor Alexander III), and exhibited at the Salon of 1876 under the name "Turkish woman in a bath" and later was one of the pieces that make up the permanent collection of French paintings of the XIX century. March 22, 2001 the picture was savagely cut from its frame and stolen from the halls of the Hermitage . In December 2006 she was discovered in Moscow, January 29, 2007 transferred to the Hermitage.
status returned cloth was characterized as an emergency. canvas has been folded, brittle filaments thin and frayed bases burst . The lines of the folds formed through cross-break, which divided the picture into four parts, interconnected by a separate thread.
From February 2007 to November 2009 was the work of French master the complex process of restoration Laboratory for Scientific Restoration of Easel Painting State Hermitage Museum (an artist-restorer of the highest category TP Aleshin and artist-restorer of Category I Shulepova MV).
| Duel after the masquerade. 1857 France Oil on canvas Source: | Bonaparte and his staff in Egypt. 1863 France Oil on canvas Source: |
addition "Pool in a Harem" in the exhibition presents the artist's other works in the Hermitage collection. This beautiful work of "Duel after the Masquerade" (1867), "General Bonaparte and his staff in Egypt" (draft, 1863), "slave sale" (1884) , engraved with a picture of "Duel after the Masquerade" (1869), which is the first version of the story "The Duel after the Masquerade" (Conde Museum at Chantilly), two sculptures, "Bacchante" (1897), created after the eponymous painting, and "applaud, citizens "(1898), depicting a gladiator next to them killed a lion in the arena.
| slave sale. Around 1884 France Oil on canvas Source: | Bacchante. 1897 model. Based on the painting "Bacchante." 1867 Bronze, partly gilded Source: |
Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904) studied in Paris under Paul Delaroche, with whom he traveled to Italy. Returning to Paris, Jerome, within six months of visiting the studio of Charles Gleyre. It is probable that he instilled in his pupil a love for the east. Other sources were the works of Jerome pompeyanskie frescoes and paintings by Ingres on classical themes. Hermitage of Jerome started on themes which were central to the master: ancient history and mythology, the history of the Napoleonic campaigns, Oriental motifs, contemporary story, featured in pageant form - can be broadly characterized many of the features of his work.
The exhibition is full-color illustrated catalog (State Hermitage Publishing House, 2011), an introductory article about the artist and the article about the restoration of paintings JL . Jerome "Pool in a Harem." exhibition curator and author of the introductory article to the directory - Alexander A. Babin, senior researcher at the Department of Western European Art of the State Hermitage, the candidate of art.
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