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Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind | Jean-Léon Gérôme | 1896

Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind | Jean-Léon Gérôme | 1896

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Jean Léon Gérôme’s Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind (1896) is a stark and unsettling allegory in which Truth is personified as a naked, furious woman emerging from a stone well, armed with a whip and illuminated by harsh, almost theatrical light. Gérôme painted this work near the end of his life, at a moment when he felt deeply disillusioned by society, journalism, and the manipulation of facts during controversies like the Dreyfus Affair. The painting captures that frustration: Truth is no serene ideal but a force of moral reckoning, climbing out of darkness to confront a world that has buried, ignored, or distorted her. The emptiness of the background intensifies her isolation and turns the scene into a universal warning about deception. Through this raw and symbolic image, Gérôme suggests that truth may be suppressed, mocked, or hidden for a time, but it always returns with a vengeance to expose the failings of humanity.

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