Details
Jean Leon Gerome (French, 1824-1904)
Arnaute fumant
signed 'J. L. Gerome'--oil on panel
14 x 9 7/8in. (35.5 x 25cm.)
Provenance
Anon.; sale, Christie's, January 19, 1968, lot 85 (bt. 350 gns.)
James Coates, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tannenbaum, Toronto
Coral Petroleum; sale, Sotheby's, New York, May 22, 1985, lot 43 (bt. $120,000)
With Galeria d'Orsay, Paris
Literature
G. Ackerman, The Life and Works of Jean-Léon Gérôme, London, 1986, no. 158, pp. 218-9 (illustrated)
E. Strahan (E. Shinn), Gérôme: A Collection of the Works of J. L. Gérôme in One Hundred Photogravures, New York, 1881-83, Section II (illustrated)
Paris Photographs:Gérôme Oeuvres, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes, 28 volumes of mounted photographs of Gérôme's paintings and sculptures, the gift of his widow, vol. XVII L. Thornton, Les Orientalistes: Peintres voyageurs 1828-1908, Paris, 1983, p. 119 (illustrated)
Exhibited
Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, The Other Nineteenth Century: Painting and Sculpture in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Tannenbaum, 1978, exh. cat. no. 35 (illustrated)
