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Jean-Léon GERÔME (Paris 1824-1904) Head of a peasant in the Roman countryside (Giacomo Orlandi de Subiaco) Oval canvas mounted on panel Height : 14 cm Width : 12,5 cm Width : 15,7 cm Signed on the right side We date this portrait to Gérôme's stay in Rome in 1843-1844, by comparison with three other similar small paintings of the same model (Dijon, Musée Magnin and private collections, see Gérald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, monographie révisée, catalog raisonné mis à jour, "Les Orientalistes", vol. 4, Paris, 2000; cat. 7 to 8.3, p. 210-211, no. 8 in color p. 22). The artist was then 19 years old and accompanied his master Paul Delaroche to Italy. There he met two other pupils of Delaroche, Charles-François Jalabert and Eugène-Jean Damery, who had won the Prix de Rome. With them, he travels through Lazio to paint studies taken on the spot. Orlandi di Subiaco, recognizable by his disheveled hair and short beard, was a particularly popular model with German and later French artists visiting Rome between 1837 and 1860. They saw in him the prototype of the romantic peasant brigand of the Roman countryside. We know portraits of him by Friedrich von Amerling (1837), Johann Niessen (1847), Anselm Feuerbach (around 1857), Henri Le Secq des Tournelles, Henri-Pierre Picou, Jules-Eugène Lenepveu, Edgar Degas (drawing in private collection) and many others. Expert: cabinet Turquin
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Jean-Léon GERÔME (Paris 1824-1904) Head of a peasant in the Roman countryside (Giacomo Orlandi de Subiaco) Oval canvas mounted on panel Height : 14 cm Width : 12,5 cm Width : 15,7 cm Signed on the right side We date this portrait to Gérôme's stay in Rome in 1843-1844, by comparison with three other similar small paintings of the same model (Dijon, Musée Magnin and private collections, see Gérald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, monographie révisée, catalog raisonné mis à jour, "Les Orientalistes", vol. 4, Paris, 2000; cat. 7 to 8.3, p. 210-211, no. 8 in color p. 22). The artist was then 19 years old and accompanied his master Paul Delaroche to Italy. There he met two other pupils of Delaroche, Charles-François Jalabert and Eugène-Jean Damery, who had won the Prix de Rome. With them, he travels through Lazio to paint studies taken on the spot. Orlandi di Subiaco, recognizable by his disheveled hair and short beard, was a particularly popular model with German and later French artists visiting Rome between 1837 and 1860. They saw in him the prototype of the romantic peasant brigand of the Roman countryside. We know portraits of him by Friedrich von Amerling (1837), Johann Niessen (1847), Anselm Feuerbach (around 1857), Henri Le Secq des Tournelles, Henri-Pierre Picou, Jules-Eugène Lenepveu, Edgar Degas (drawing in private collection) and many others. Expert: cabinet Turquin
