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    19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN ART

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    17 June 2004

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    • Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824
    Lot 54

    Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904)

    La danseuse à la pomme

    Price realised

    GBP 10,755

    Estimate

    GBP 10,000 - GBP 15,000

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    Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904)
    La danseuse à la pomme
    signed 'J. L. Gérôme', stamped with foundry mark 'Siot Fondeur Paris' and numbered 'G174'
    gilt bronze
    20½ in. (52 cm.) high

    Provenance

    Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 June 1998, lot 58.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    G.M. Ackerman, La vie et l'oeuvre de Jean-Léon Gérôme, Paris, 1992, p. 316, no. S. 20 (another cast illustrated).


    Lot Essay

    Gérôme modelled his Danseuse à la pomme, also known as the Ancient Dancer, in 1890 and exhibited it at the Salon the following year. According to Ackerman, the original version, shown again at the Cercle de l'Union Artistique in 1893, was 95 cm. high and consisted of a marble body, ivory arms, breasts, neck, hands and feet, applied with bronze jewelley and semi-precious stones. As with the majority of Gérôme's bronzes, the Danseuse was subsequently cast by the Siot-Decauville foundry and was edited in three sizes, the present cast being an example of the middle size.

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