GEROME, zhapriim', can Leon, French painter and sculptor: b. Vesoul, Haute-Saone, 11
d. Paris, 9 Jan. 1904. He was a pupil of Delaroche, who early credited with tb originality and style. When he exhibited his
ment of historical genre•Gerome easily led the European painters of his century. Other of his paintings are 'Two Augurs' (1861) ; 'Cleopatra and Caesar' (1866) ; and (Pollice Vorso' (1873). Specimens of his work are in the Boston Museum, Metropolitan Museum and the Vanderbilt Collection, New York, and the Wal ters Gallery, Baltimore. He was elected a member of the Institute in 1865, was chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1855, and later commander. In later life he devoted himself mainly to sculpture. Consult Claretie, (Peintres et sculpteurs contemporains' (1884); Cook, (Art and Artists of Our Time' (1888) ; biography by Hering.(1892) ; Van Dyke, (Modern French Masters' (1896).