Jean-Leon Gerome's Rider and his Steed in the Desert is on display in Doha. Photo: Sotheby's Gerome's work made him perhaps the most popular painter of 19th-century France.

Edward Cucuel was an American artist known for his idyllic outdoor scenes with young women and his contribution to impressionism ... and the Académie des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme. His work ...