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 painted a variety of subjects ancient and modern, which have gained him a place as one of the best-known modern French painters. Gérôme has also exhibited several sculptured groups, and has executed mural paintings for the city of Paris, among them the Plague at Marseilles in St. Séverin. Medals: 3d class, 1847; 2d class, 1848, 1855; of honour, 1867, 1874, 1878; for sculpture, 1878; L. of Honour, 1855; Officer, 1867; Commander, 1878; Member of Institute, 1865. Professor in École des Beaux Arts, 1863. Works: Cock Fight (1847), Luxembourg Museum; Madonna and St. John (1848); Anacreon with Bacchus and Cupid (1848), Toulouse Museum; Bacchus and Cupid Intoxicated (1850), Bordeaux Museum; Greek Interior, Souvenir of Italy (1851); View of Pæstum (1852); An Idyl (1853); Russian Concert, Age of Augustus (1855), Amiens Museum; Egyptian Recruits crossing the Desert, Memnon and Sesostris, Camels at Watering-Place (1857); Gladiators saluting Cæsar, King Candaules (1859); Phryne before the Tribunal, Alcibiades in House of Aspasia, Rembrandt Etching (1861); Prisoner (1863), Nantes Museum; Reception of Siamese Ambassadors at Fontainebleau, Prayer (1865); Cleopatra and Cæsar, Door of Mosque of El Hacamyn (1866); Slave Market, Clothing Merchant, Death of Cæsar (1867); Seventh of December, 1815 (1868); Jerusalem, Cairo Pedlar, Promenade of the Harem (1869); Rex Tibicen, Santon at the Door of a Mosque, Women at the Bath (1876); St. Jerome, Turkish Bath, Bashi-Bazouks Dancing, Return from the Chase (1878); Slave Market in Rome, Night in the Desert, Danse du Baton (1884); Great Bath at Brusa (1885). Works in United States: Female Figure, T. A. Havemeyer, New York; Abyssinian Chief, Sheik at Devotions—Ancient Mosque in Cairo, Miss C. L. Wolfe, ib.; Slave Market, A. Belmont, ib.; Eminence Grise (1874), Molière Breakfasting with Louis XIV., J. H. Stebbins, ib.; Arabs in Desert, W. Rockefeller, ib.; Death of Cæsar (1867), J. J. Astor, ib.; After the Bath, William Astor, ib.; Prayer in the Desert, I. Corse, ib.; Bull-Fighter, Guard of Louis XIV., T. R. Butler, ib.; Snake-Charmer, Albert Spencer, ib.; Arab Seated, Mrs. Paran Stevens, ib.; Crucifixion, Frank Work, New York; Bonaparte in Egypt, Call to Prayer, R. L. Kennedy, ib.; Pifferari in London, J. C. Runkle, ib.; Muezzin's Call to Prayer, J. W. Drexel, ib.; Dante at Ravenna, M. K. Jesup, ib.; Runners of the Pasha, R. L. Stuart, ib.; Cleopatra before Cæsar (1866), Diogenes, D. O. Mills, ib.; Woman of Syria, C. P. Huntington, ib.; Street Scene in Cairo, Playing Chess, C. S. Smith, ib.; Turkish Butcher-Boy (1863), Dance of the Almeh (1864), J. Hoey, ib.; Louis XIV. and the Grand Condé, Asking Alms in a Mosque, Sword Dance, Bashi-Bazouk, W. H. Vanderbilt, ib.; Une Collaboration, Circus Maximus, Gladiators, Mrs. A. T. Stewart, ib.; Syrian Shepherd, H. Probasco, Cincinnati; Circassian Girl, H. V. Newcomb, New York; Oriental Woman, Leland Stanford, San Francisco; Sword Dance in the Café, C. Crocker, ib.; Arnaut Soldier, Mrs. W. P. Wilstach, Philadelphia; Almehs playing Checkers, Mrs. T. A. Scott, ib.; Old Clothes Dealer in Cairo, H. C. Gibson, Philadelphia; On the Desert, Diogenes (1860), Christian Martyrs (1883), Duel after the Masquerade (1857), W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Cæsar Dead, Corcoran Gallery, Washington.—Claretie, Peintres (1884), ii. 57; Meyer, Gesch., 676; Montrosier, Artistes modernes; Gaz. des B. Arts (1868), xxiv. 147; (1876), xiv. 218, 334; Portfolio (1875), 82; Hamerton, French Painters.

GERRIT VAN HAARLEM. See Geertgen van Sint-Jans.

GERRY, SAMUEL L., born in Boston in 1813. Landscape and genre painter, self-taught; has travelled and studied nature in Europe, especially in France, Switzerland, and Italy; studio in Boston. One of foundation members and early president of the Boston Art Club. Works: Land of Beulah; Over the River; Bridal Tour of