An exhibition hints that Jean-Léon Gérôme and his contemporaries deserve a second look for the virtuosity of their photorealism. I don’t take the bait.

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.

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