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Gérôme's teaching career lasted for 40 years. He taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1863 to 1894, and his students included Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, and Vincent van Gogh. Gérôme was a highly influential teacher, and his students went on to become some of the most important artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.