Jean-Jacques Henner (French, 1829-1905)
Salomé, variante tardive
signed 'JJ Henner' (lower right)
oil on canvas
39 x 26 in. (99.1 x 66 cm.)
Painted circa 1903.
Provenance
J. J. Carnaud, France. His sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 31 March 1911, lot 12, as Hérodiade. Eugène Camille Lambert (1871-1848), Nice. María Antonia Netto de Mendilaharsu (1861-1949), Nice and Montevideo, acquired from the above, 14 April 1924. By descent to the present owner.
Literature
Gazette de l’Hôtel Drouot, 31 March 1911. I. de Lannoy, Jean-Jacques Henner 1829-1905, thèse dactyl., École du Louvre, 1986, unpublished, p. 1165. I. de Lannoy, Catalogue raisonné Jean-Jacques Henner, Abbeville, 2008, vol. 2, p. 90, no. C.898.
Lot Essay
We are grateful to Isabelle de Lannoy for her assistance with cataloguing this work, and for confirming its authenticity.