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Head of a peasant from the roman campagna by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Head of a peasant from the roman campagna

Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1843

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Jean-Léon Gérôme
Date
1843
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Jean-Léon Gérôme

Jean-Léon Gérôme, a leading academic painter and sculptor, was so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880."

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