Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)

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Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)

Un Marchand d'armes au Caire

signed 'J. L. Gérôme'; oil on panel
22 x 17 5/8in. (55.9 x 44.8cm.)
Painted in 1869
Provenance
With Goupil & Cie, Paris, sold to
M. Knoedler & Co., New York in 1870 (8000 Ffr)
W. B. Dinsmere, New York
Sordoni Collection, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
With Mathaf Gallery, London
Literature
E. Strahan, Gérôme: A Collection of the Works of J. L. Gérôme in One Hundred Photogravures, New York, 1881, II, no. LXXVII (illus.)
G. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, London, 1986, no. 194, pp. 226-7 (illus.)

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)

He first visited Egypt in 1856, spending four months navigating the Nile with friends, and a further four months in Cairo in a house lent by Soliman Pasha.

By the mid-1860s Gérôme was a member of the Institute and, according to Gerald Ackerman, at the height of his career.

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