The world of Sculpture and Pygmalion by Jean-Léon GérômeGérôme paints the sculpture in progress and the myth of a statue that comes to life: real workshop, dreamed antiquity and desire of the creator are reflected.
1824 - 1904Life of Jean-Léon Gérôme
around 1878Major development of his sculpted activity
1890Famous early versions of Pygmalion and Galatea
° 2,000Paintings, sculptures, drawings and studies - overall estimate
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1870s -1904 · Workshop, polychromy and birth of the work
Gérôme paints the sculpture in progress and the myth of a statue that comes to life: real workshop, dreamed antiquity and desire of the creator are reflected.
Jean-Léon Gérôme is both a painter and sculptor. From the 1870s, he modeled figures, experimented with polychromy and defended the idea that ancient sculpture was colorful. This double practice nourishes studio paintings where statues, tools, models and assistants blur the boundary between real manufacturing and historical reconstruction. In Tanagra's Workshop, his own colorful sculpture occupies the center of a contemporary space, surrounded by objects that explain his production. In L'Atelier de Tanagra, his own colorful sculpture occupies the center of a contemporary space, surrounded by objects that explain his production. Pygmalion's motif pushes this reflection towards myth: the sculptor embraces Galatea at the moment when the ivory becomes flesh. Gérôme paints several versions, varying the point of view so that the viewer mentally turns around the group as if in front of a sculpture. The statuettes, masks and accessories visible in the workshop connect modern commerce, archeology and ancient fantasy. The collection reveals less an opposition between painting and sculpture than a system of passages: volume to image, white to color, inert material to desired body. The selection "Sculpture and Pygmalion by Jean-Léon Gérôme" notably compares Atelier de Tanagra - Jean-Léon Gérôme and Pygmalion and Galatea - Jean-Léon Gérôme. His reading favors drawing.
In Gérôme's Pygmalion, the miracle is also a workshop problem: at what precise place does matter cease to be a statue and become skin?
Course & style
Journey, subjects and pictorial language
Jean-Léon Gérôme is both a painter and sculptor. From the 1870s, he modeled figures, experimented with polychromy and defended the idea that ancient sculpture was colorful. This double practice nourishes studio paintings where statues, tools, models and assistants blur the boundary between real manufacturing and historical reconstruction. In Tanagra's Workshop, his own colorful sculpture occupies the center of a contemporary space, surrounded by objects that explain his production. In L'Atelier de Tanagra, his own colorful sculpture occupies the center of a contemporary space, surrounded by objects that explain his production. Pygmalion's motif pushes this reflection towards myth: the sculptor embraces Galatea at the moment when the ivory becomes flesh. Gérôme paints several versions, varying the point of view so that the viewer mentally turns around the group as if in front of a sculpture. The statuettes, masks and accessories visible in the workshop connect modern commerce, archeology and ancient fantasy. The collection reveals less an opposition between painting and sculpture than a system of passages: volume to image, white to color, inert material to desired body.
Switch from table to volume
Gérôme learns sculpture and defends ancient color. This milestone sheds light on the "Sculpture and Pygmalion by Jean-Léon Gérôme" collection, favoring drawing.
Put the workshop in abyss
Tanagra, models and tools make manufacturing a pictorial subject.
Animate Galatea
Versions of Pygmalion and polychrome sculptures synthesize matter and desire.
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Sculptural point of view
Each version introduces the embracing group in a different way. This line guides a reading of "Sculpture and Pygmalion by Jean-Léon Gérôme" centered on drawing.
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Skin tone threshold
Color materializes the transition from ivory to flesh.
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Documented workshop
Tools, base and castings make the work visible.
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Recomposed antiquity
Tanagra and Pygmalion combine archeology, invention and the modern market.
Explore by universe
See the sculpture become image and body
Tanagra workshop, two points of view on Pygmalion and portrait of the sculptor explain the circulation between profession and myth.
Atelier01
Inventory manufacturing
Statue, model and tools give the viewer behind the scenes of the work.
For the profession. Reading "Sculpture and Pygmalion by Jean-Léon Gérôme" through drawing.Metamorphosis02
Enter the first contact
The kiss marks the threshold between cold surface and colored flesh.
For the storyRotation03
Change your point of view
Two versions force us to think of painting as a circle around volume.
For spaceSelf-portrait04
Show artist sculptor
Gérôme places his own practice in the story he tells.
For authorWorkshop · Gérôme05
Tanagra workshop - Jean-Léon Gérôme
Tanagra is surrounded by real objects that transform a sculpture into a workshop production.
Landmark work of Sculpture and Pygmalion by Jean-Léon GérômeFace · Gérôme06
Pygmalion and Galatea - Jean-Léon Gérôme
The first version places the kiss at the center of the transition from ivory to flesh.
Landmark work of Sculpture and Pygmalion by Jean-Léon Gérôme
Works to discover
Four works around sculpture and Pygmalion
Atelier, two versions of the legendary couple and artist at work bring together contemporary manufacturing and ancient metamorphosis.
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From the work to your interior
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Each reproduction is unique. Slight variations of touch and material testify to the painter's manual work.
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A patinated bronze, black or gold frame and a vertical format will emphasize the base, the skin tones and the illusion of volume.
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