ARTIST JEAN LEON GEROME

This is one other artist from the Legions of Honor that I took a shine to. Gerome was a 19th century French painter who specialized in Orientalism. His paintings seem to offer a level of social criticism as well (see unhappy white woman bathed by native). The amount of detail on the canvas was impressive as well as the three-diamensionality of the piece. You could almost taste the bathroom mold.