The Gulf of Aqaba
by GÉRÔME, Jean-Léon, Oil on canvas, 27 x 36 cm
From 1855, G�r�me regularly travels to the East coast of the Mediterranean Sea. In 1857, he travels alongside Emile Augier and August Bartholdi in Egypt. In the aftermath of this journey we can find the great variety of the subjects treated by the artist at the 1857 Salon. His Orientalist painter carrier eventually begins. 1859 announces the first Egyptian genre works at the Salon: the painter offers an innovative view of the Midle-East.
Between 1862 and 1867 his journeys in Egypt and Syria allow him to feed his imagination, and thanks to this imagery he meets a great success every year at the French Art Salon.
In 1893, he is appointed as honorary president of the Orientalist Painters Society, together with Benjamin Constant.