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Art Paintings Season Two The Exaltation of Beauty

The Art of Adolphe Alexandre Lesrel

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Adolphe Alexandre Lesrel was twenty-two when he began his studies with the academic painter, Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904). Like many aspiring painters, he hoped to follow in Gérôme’s footsteps as a history painter of scenes from ancient Greece and Rome.