Jean-Léon Gérôme

Prayer in the House of the Arnaut Chief

Lot Closed

October 26, 02:15 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Gentleman

Jean-Léon Gérôme

French

1824 - 1904

Prayer in the House of the Arnaut Chief

signed and dated J.L.GEROME / 1857 lower right

oil on panel

Unframed: 36 by 54cm., 14¼ by 21¼in.

Framed: 67 by 83cm., 26¼ by 32¾in.

We are grateful to Dr Emily M. Weeks for her assistance in cataloguing this work which will be included in her revision of the artist's catalogue raisonné by Gerald M. Ackerman.

Julien Bessonneau, Angers (his sale: Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 15 June 1954, lot 41)
Sale: De Baecque & Associés, Lyon, 17 November 2014, lot 490
Purchased at the above sale by the previous owner

Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Monographie révisée, Paris, 2000, pp. 230-31, no. 71.4, catalogued & illustrated (as atelier de Gérôme, La prière chez un chef arnaute, réduction)

Possibly, Paris, Bernheim-Jeune & Fils, 1902, no. 12472 (as La prière)