Jean-Léon Gérôme

You are in the cross-stitch diagrams section of paintings by Jean-Léon Gérôme, a French painter who died in 1904. Gérôme is the author of works on historical, mythological and oriental themes. This is evident in the diagrams that we present to you, "Betshabe" and "Cleopatra and Caesar." He is considered one of the most important painters of academicism. At that time the female nude was treated as a phenomenon associated with the oriental world, which made it more acceptable in the eyes of a society with very strict values. This is evident in Jean-Léon Gérôme's checkered cross-stitch schemes.