The Life and Work of Jean-Leon Gerome

The Life and Work of Jean-Leon Gerome

Ackerman, Gerald M.

Arts & Photography

Sotheby Parke Bernet Pubns

Contemporary humanism: Reconfirmation of the figure, Randall Lavender, John Nava, David Ligare, Jon Swihart : November 7-December 10, 1987, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton

The Gallery

•Two hundred lithographs that comprised a famous late nineteenth-century drawing course •Introduces the work of a hitherto neglected master: Charles Bargue •Of interest to artists, art students, art historians, and lovers and collectors of art The Bargue-Gérôme Drawing Course is a complete reprint of a famous, late nineteenth-century drawing course. It contains a set of almost two hundred masterful lithographs of subjects for copying by drawing students before they attempt drawing from life or nature. Consequently, it is a book that will interest artists, art students, art historians, and lovers and collectors of drawings. It also introduces us to the work and life of a hitherto neglected master: Charles Bargue. The Drawing Course consists of three sections. The first consists of plates drawn after casts, usually of antique examples. Different parts of the body are studied in order of difficulty, until full figures are presented. The second section pays homage to the western school of painting, with lithographs after exemplary drawings by Renaissance and modern masters. The third part contains almost 60 académies, or drawings after nude male models, all original inventions by Bargue, the lithographer. With great care, the student is introduced to continually more difficult problems in the close observing and recording of nature. Charles Bargue started his career as a lithographer of drawings by hack artists for a popular market in comic, sentimental and soft-porn subjects. By working with Gérôme, and in preparing the plates for the course, Bargue was transformed into a spectacular painter of single figures and intimate scenes; a master of precious details that always remain observation and never became self-conscious virtuosity, and color schemes that unified his composition in exquisite tonal harmonies. The last part of the book is a biography of Bargue, along with a preliminary catalogue of his paintings, accompanied by reproductions of all that have been found and of many of those lost.

Charles Bargue and Jean-Leon Gerome: Drawing Course

Parrish, Graydon

History & Criticism

Acc Art Books

A complete overview of Gerome's life and long career.

Jean-Leon Gerome: His Life, His Work 1824-1904 (PocheCouleur, No. 21)

Acr Edition

This monograph spans the entire life and work of Jean-Leon Gerome and is composed of two parts: a biographical appreciation and a catalogue of his paintings, prints and sculptures. The study of the artist's life is based on three ancient monographs, the perusal of the contemporary press and the recollections of students and friends. This catalogue is the result of 25 years of research. Approximately 700 paintings and 70 sculptures have been inventoried through archives, old State documents, catalogues and correspondence with collectors.

Jean-Léon Gérôme: Monographie révisée et catalogue raisonné mis à jour (French Edition)

The Bargue-Gérôme Drawing Course is a complete reprint of a famous, late nineteenth century drawing course. It contains a set of almost two hundred masterful lithographs of subjects for copying by drawing students before they attempt drawing from life or nature. Consequently it is a book that will interest artists, art students, art historians, and lovers and collectors of drawings. It also introduces us to the work and life of a hitherto neglected master: Charles Bargue. The Drawing Course consists of three sections. The first consists of plates drawn after casts, usually of antique examples. Different parts of the body are studied in order of difficulty, until full figures are presented. The second section pays homage to the western school of painting with lithographs after exemplary drawings by Renaissance and modern masters. The third part contains almost sixty académies or drawings after nude male models, all original inventions by Bargue, the lithographer. With great care, the student is introduced to continually more difficult problems in the close observing and recording of nature. Practiced professional artists will see at once the problems of representation that are approached by Bargue, and they will delight in his solutions. Figure painters will copy the plates to keep in tune; so to speak, much as pianists practice the exercises of Czerny before performing Beethoven. Art students will find it a practical and progressive introduction to realistic figure drawing. Art historians can learn by studying these drawings just what was prized in late nineteenth century figure painting. They will recognize the reliance upon tradition by the use of antique sculptures as models in the first part: Antiquity is here used, not to impose a classical style, but as an aid in seeing the structure of the human body with clarity and intelligence. The result is a convergence of Classicism and Realism. There are no numerical proportional charts, perspective boxes or geometrical schemata to memorize. All the techniques and schemata are developed out of and for the object or person in view. The drawings are splendid; beautiful; not simply products of assiduity, but of careful observation and the wish to transcribe and communicate the beauty of nature and light, as well as the manifold appearances of the human body. These are objectives that will touch and move any careful reader of drawings, and the figurative arts. Text in French.

Charles Bargue et Jean-Léon Gérôme: Cours de dessin (French Edition)

Study & Teaching

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The Life and Work of Jean-Leon Gerome

Contemporary humanism: Reconfirmation of the figure, Randall Lavender, John Nava, David Ligare, Jon Swihart : November 7-December 10, 1987, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton

Charles Bargue and Jean-Leon Gerome: Drawing Course

Jean-Leon Gerome: His Life, His Work 1824-1904 (PocheCouleur, No. 21)

Jean-Léon Gérôme: Monographie révisée et catalogue raisonné mis à jour (French Edition)

Charles Bargue et Jean-Léon Gérôme: Cours de dessin (French Edition)