Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904)
Lionne et lionceaux
signed 'J.L. Gerome.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
26½ x 39½ in. (67.5 x 100.5 cm.)
Provenance
Boussod, Valadon & Cie., Paris.
M. Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, sold to Frank T. Howard, 1899.
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 30 October 1980, lot 28.
Literature
G. M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, London, 1986, p. 300, no. 536 (illustrated and illustrated in colour, p. 159).