MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR EDITED BY - - M. HENRY ROUJON GÉRÔME (1824-1904) _IN THE SAME SERIES_ REYNOLDS HOLBEIN VELASQUEZ BURNE-JONES GREUZE LE BRUN TURNER CHARDIN BOTTICELLI MILLET ROMNEY RAEBURN REMBRANDT SARGENT BELLINI CONSTABLE FRA ANGELICO MEMLING ROSSETTI FRAGONARD RAPHAEL DÜRER LEIGHTON LAWRENCE HOLMAN HUNT HOGARTH TITIAN WATTEAU MILLAIS MURILLO LUINI WATTS FRANZ HALS INGRES CARLO DOLCI COROT GAINSBOROUGH DELACROIX TINTORETTO FRA LIPPO LIPPI VAN DYCK PUVIS DE CHAVANNES DA VINCI MEISSONIER WHISTLER GEROME RUBENS VERONESE BOUCHER VAN EYCK MANTEGNA _IN PREPARATION_ FROMENTIN PERUGINO [Illustration: PLATE I.--YOUNG GREEKS ENGAGED IN COCK FIGHTING PIERRE LAFITTE & CIE, PARIS (In the Luxembourg Museum, Paris) This was Gérôme's first picture. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1847, and achieved a brilliant success. Théophile Gautier, who was a critic hard to please, bestowed upon it some enviable praise. In later years the artist found much to censure in his early work; but the public, less severely critical, admired the graceful nudity of the young forms and the combative ardour of the two adversaries.] GÉRÔME BY ALBERT KEIM TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY FREDERIC TABER COOPER ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR [Illustration: IN SEMPITERNUM.] FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY NEW YORK--PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY _Printed in the United States of America_ CONTENTS Page Introduction 11 Life of Gérôme 17 The Artist's Work 43 The Art of Gérôme 72 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Plates I. Young Greeks Engaged in Cock Fighting Frontispiece (In the Luxembourg Museum) Page II. Reception of the Siamese Ambassadors 14 (In the Versailles Museum) III. Anacreon, with Bacchus and Cupid 24 (In the Toulouse Museum) IV. Pollice Verso 34 (In a Private Collection, United States) V. The Prisoner 40 (In the Nantes Museum) VI. The Last Prayer 50 (In a Private Collection, United States) VII. The Vendor of Rugs 60 (In a Private Collection, United States) VIII. The Two Majesties 70 (In a Private Collection, United States) I INTRODUCTION