Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)

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Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)

Trois Personnages priant dans un Coin de Mosquée

signed 'J. L. Gérôme'; oil on canvas laid down on board
28½ x 23½in. (72.4 x 59.7cm.)

Provenance

Whiting Estate; Sotheby Parke Bernet Los Angeles, 22-23 May 1972, lot 265
with H. Shickman Galleries, New York
Mr. Joseph Tanenbaum, Toronto
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 12 Oct. 1979, lot 314

Literature

G. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, London, 1986, pp. 169 and 294, no. 509 (illus. in colour and illus.)

Exhibited

Possibly Paris, Salon, 1865

Lot Essay

'Jean-Léon Gérôme was during the second half of the 19th Century one of the most famous painters in the world ... Gérôme was not only a superb technician, but was the most successful and influential artist of the Orientalist movement'. (L. Thornton, The Orientalists Painter-Travellers, 1828-1908, Paris, 1983, p. 112)

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