Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1887 - Woman at a Balcony - fine art print

"Woman at a Balcony" as your art print

This artwork titled Woman at a Balcony was made by Jean-Léon Gérôme. The original was painted with the size - 19 3/4 × 16 3/8 in (50,2 × 41,6 cm). Oil on canvas was applied by the French painter as the technique for the artwork. This artwork forms part of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital art collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. This public domain artwork is included, courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Kenneth Jay Lane, 2015. : Gift of Kenneth Jay Lane, 2015. The alignment is portrait with a side ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Jean-Léon Gérôme was a painter, whose style was primarily Realism. The French painter was born in 1824 and died at the age of 80 in 1904.

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Seen from below as if from street level and posed seductively in a revealing costume, this woman is identifiable as an alma, or courtesan. The setting recalls Cairo, which Gérôme visited for the last time in 1868, some twenty years before he painted the picture.

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