Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904)
Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904)
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Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904)

Chef arnaute

Details
Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904)
Chef arnaute
signed 'J.L.GEROME.' (upper left)
oil on panel
9 ¾ x 11 ¾ in. (24.6 x 30 cm.)
Painted in 1870.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by Goupil & Co., Paris, April 1870 (3000 Ffr.).
Acquired from the above by Everard, May 1870 (6,000 Ffr.).
Albert Levy, London.
His sale; Christie's, London, 31 March 1876, lot 115, as 'A Bashi Bazouk'.
Acquired from the above sale by Goupil, London.
Acquired by the grandfather of the present owner in the first quater of the 20th Century, Netherlands,
Thence by descent.
Literature
Figaro illustre, July 1901, p.17
G. Ackerman, The Life and Works of Jean-Léon Gérôme, London, 1986, p. 250, no. 305 (illustrated).
G. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Monographie Révisée, catalogue raisonné mis à jour, Paris, 2000, pp. 304,305, no. 305.
H. Lafond-Couturier et. al. Gérôme & Goupil: Art & Enterprise, Paris, 2000 (exh. cat.), p.126, as 'Bashi-Bazouk Chieftain (Chef bachi-bouzouk).
Engraved
Goupil & Co., 1865.

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