The Orientalist Museum will be participating in special exhibition taking place at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles starting June 15th.  Featuring iconic works of Orientalist painter, Jean-Leon Gerome, it is the first time his art will be on display in nearly 40 years.

Titled “The Spectacular Art of Jean-Leon Gerome,” the exhibition focuses on Gérôme's most iconic works from his classicizing beginnings to his dramatic history paintings to some of his popular Orientalist works coming from the Orientalist Museum of Doha.

Organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, in association with the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme is the first major, comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work in nearly 40 years and proceeds from a new wave of scholarship that is reconsidering Gérôme’s importance both as a painter and sculptor.
The Orientalist Museum has loaned for the exhibition 3 masterpieces painted by Gerome, one of the most relevant orientalist painters, acclaimed by the critics for the incisive characterizations of ethnic types, the extremely high level of precise detail, and the ostensibly photographic exactitude of his paintings:

1.The Doorway to the Mosque El Assaneyn in Cairo where the Heads of the Rebel Beys were Exposed by Salek-Kachef, 1866.

2.Veiled Circassian Beauty, 1876.

3.Le Barde Noir, c. 1888.

The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme will trace the artist’s career thematically and chronologically.  The exhibition will address Gérôme’s imaginative use of antique themes and sources, his inventive strategies as a history and genre painter, his complex relationship to Orientalism, and his contribution to the history of sculpture. The exhibition will simultaneously consider his productive engagement with photography and the legacy of his art in early 20th-century cinema.