The Carpet Merchant
Jean-Leon Gerome
1887
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 33 7/8 x 27 1/16 in. (86.0 x 68.7 cm) (sight) 48 5/8 x 41 3/4 x 5 in. (123.5 x 106.1 x 12.7 cm) (outer frame)
- Genre
- Painting
Tags
france
About
Schooled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and honored by the French Salon, Jean-Léon Gérôme was a prolific and popular artist. Like Delacroix, he traveled extensively in North Africa and the Middle East. The Carpet Merchant depicts the Court of the Rug Market in Cairo, which Gérôme had visited in 1885.
