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Jean-Leon Gérome, a highly successful artist, exerts …

Years: 1880 - 1880
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Jean-Leon Gérome, a highly successful artist, exerts great influence in the Paris art world and is exceedingly hostile to the Impressionists.

As a teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts, he has counted among his many pupils Odilon Redon and the American artists Thomas Eakins and J. Alden Weir.

Fifty-six in 1880, he has begun concentrating on sculpture.