| Jerusalem | |
| Artist: | Jean-Léon Gérôme |
| Year: | 1867 |
| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Height Metric: | 82 |
| Width Metric: | 144.5 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| City: | Paris |
| Museum: | Musée d'Orsay |
Jerusalem is an 1867 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It is also known as Golgotha, Consumatum Est and The Crucifixion (La Crucifixion). The foreground depicts the ground of Golgotha with the shadows of three crucified men: Jesus and the two thieves. Further back in the picture is a crowd of people moving away from the scene. In the background is the city of Jerusalem under a cloudy sky.
It was characteristic of Gérôme to depict not a violent event itself, but the aftermath of such violence; see The Death of Caesar, The Execution of Marshal Ney, and The Duel After the Masquerade.
The painting marked Gérôme's return to history painting after a period of exploring orientalism. Like much Christian art of the era, the depiction was influenced by Ernest Renan's Life of Jesus.[1]
The painting was presented at the 1868 Salon. Since 1990 it is located at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.[2]