. Gérôme : the life and works of Jean Léon Gérôme . nto vacancy beyond the crowd,and waits her turn tostand where her sistei is, and be sold The hold, hard-featured Roman who sellsthe family wears a yellow toga with a red trabea. He stoopsbj the side of hishuman chattel, toward the crowd, while with -nc hand outstretched lie repliesVOCiferOUSlj to the bidders. Clerks of the market seated at the desk and asecond group ol slaves complete the design. Night in Hi, Desert [continues the Athenceum] is a calm, moonlit scenepool, where a huge tigress lies at ease, like a grand Egyptian statue, uponthe
. Gérôme : the life and works of Jean Léon Gérôme . nto vacancy beyond the crowd,and waits her turn tostand where her sistei is, and be sold The hold, hard-featured Roman who sellsthe family wears a yellow toga with a red trabea. He stoopsbj the side of hishuman chattel, toward the crowd, while with -nc hand outstretched lie repliesVOCiferOUSlj to the bidders. Clerks of the market seated at the desk and asecond group ol slaves complete the design. Night in Hi, Desert [continues the Athenceum] is a calm, moonlit scenepool, where a huge tigress lies at ease, like a grand Egyptian statue, uponthe sand, and seems to purr with grim content, while not far ofl her two cubsgambol. Idie picture is lull of sentiment, and u has a vague grandeur due tothe vastness oi the landscape and it- simple forms, which, although hut halfvisible, loom up in the uniform, almost shadowless twilighl oi the moon. ./ Roman Slave-Market, which was finished about this time, hut not sen! i the Salon, shows tin- reverse side oi the Slave Sale at Rome- the faces of the. i ki I Il l; 01 II • ND: LIFE AND WORKS Of / l.\ LEO Mi 24; bidders, with all their variety I lineament and expression, while thai of thebeautiful slave is turned aside. It is almost as effective and pathetic as thefirst canvas. It was in this year, in celebration of Gerflmes sixtieth birthday, thaiChaplain, engraver in metals, executed Ins famous bronze medallion portraitoi the artist, an admirable woodcut of which was made for the CenturyMagazine of February, 1889, l>\ a well-known American artist and former pupilof Gerflme, Wvatt Baton. The same number contains other engravings afterGerflme, several oi which are worthy to be cut oul and framed, especially thoseexecuted by Henry Wolf, an Alsatian, we believe, who begged the favor olreproducing the masterpieces oi his illustrious countryman. Gerflme, in Wolfs work, especially in LQZdipe, to be the finest he had everseen, and was delighted to find that the e
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