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Gérôme by Albert Keim. MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR EDITED BY M. HENRY ROUJON. GÉRÔME has his allotted place among the illustrious French painters of the Nineteenth Century. He achieved success honours official recognition; and he deserved them if not for the compelling personality of his temperament at least for his assiduous industry his accurate methodical and picturesque way of seeing people and things and the amazing and fertile variety both of his choice and his interpretation of subjects.. He was a pupil of Paul Delaroche and seems to have inherited the latter's adroitness in seizing upon the one salient and emotional detail in a composition. Like that historian-painter of the Death of the Duc de Guise Gérôme excelled in always giving a dramatic stage setting to the persons and the events which he knew how to conjure up with such learned and scrupulous care.. In spite of his versatility and notwithstanding that many a vast canvas has demonstrated his ingenious and resourceful talent he takes his place beside Meissonier because of the extreme importance that he attached to accuracy and precise effects.