Geronie

Geronie, Leon, a French painter, was born in 1824 at Vesoul. In 1841 he entered the studio of Paul Delaroche, in 1847 he exhibited, and soon after travelled for a time in the East. In 1861 he became Professor of Painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. His first notable work was Aye of Auyustus and Birth of Cltrist, and other wellknown pictures of his are a Roman Gladiator in the Amphitheatre, Phryne before her Judyes, and Socrates Looking for Alcibiades at Aspasia's House.