Jean-Léon Gérôme
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Jean-Léon Gérôme was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880."
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Birthplace of Jean-Léon Gérôme in Vesoul, France
The Cock Fight (1846; Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
The Age of Augustus, the Birth of Christ, c. 1852–1854, Musée de Picardie
Truth Coming Out of Her Well
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La Vérité sortant du puits armée de son martinet pour châtier l'humanité is an 1896 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.
Jean-Léon Gérôme
…of, or emerging from a well. The imagery was inspired by an aphorism of the philosopher Democritus, "Of truth we know nothing, for truth is in a well." Truth Coming Out of Her Well, Armed with Her Whip to Chastise Mankind was exhibited in the Salon du Champ de Mars of 1896. It has been assumed that the painting was a comment on the Dreyfus affair, but art historian Bernard…
Jean Léon Gerome 1896 La Vérité sortant du puits
La Vérité (c. 1879) by Paul Baudry, Musée d'Orsay
![La Vérité (1883) by Jules-Arsène Garnier [fr], private collection](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Jules_Arsene_Garnier--Truth_Coming_Out_of_Her_Well--1883.jpg/500px-Jules_Arsene_Garnier--Truth_Coming_Out_of_Her_Well--1883.jpg)
La Vérité (1883) by Jules-Arsène Garnier [fr], private collection
Mendacibus et histrionibus occisa in puteo jacet alma Veritas (The nurturer Truth lies in a well, having been killed by liars and actors, 1895) by Jean-Léon Gérôme