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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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tect of hisswarthy complexion being heightened byhis snow-white turban and the back-ground ol dark green cacti and palms.LAveugle is the portrait ol a si^hl-le^s patriarch who came daily with his youthful guide to bring a supply oi Nilev. itei lo G6r6me, then encamped close to ihe Sphinx, on one ot his manyjourneys through Egypt. The picture oi Jean Bart, a Frenchman who gained renown upon the sea fighting against the English, recalls a droll incident related by Ger6me. On the eve of leaving lor Egypt, he employed a fewleisun moments in sketching this figure from a favorite model. While thusoccupied he received a visitor, Monsieur X., who. alter arranging with him amatter ol mutual interest, wished him a bon voyage and Kit him. still busilypainting. Several months later, Ger6me, arriving at Marseilles on his return.according to custom telegraphed his model, took the night train, and. onreaching Ins atelier in Paris the next morning, found the fictitious Jean Bart THE POETS DIIKAM 1886
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