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Jean-Léon Gérôme
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Provenance
Blanche Goupil, wife of Léon Cléry (1831-1904)[1]
Thence by descent to their son, Pierre Cléry
Thence by descent to his daughter Marcelle Cléry
Thence by descent to Françoise Bergeret, born De Tarde, her daughter
Shepherd Gallery, New York, 1997
Beaugard Gallery, Paris, 1998
Bogart, Barontini, Le Louarn, Paris, 1998
Galerie Martin du Louvre, Paris, 1998
Wendy Goldsmith Ltd., London
Private collection, California, USA, 2003 (acquired from the above)
[1] Blanche was Gérôme’s sister-in-law. In 1866 she married Léon Cléry, a lawyer. In 1863, Cléry was gifted a study for Le Marchand de masques also known as Les Comédiens, or Scène de théâtre by Gérôme (now at the Château de Compiègne, no. 141.2 Ackerman)
Exhibitions
Washington, D.C., Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, 19th-century Orientalist Paintings from the Collection of Terence Garnett, 8 - 30 November 2007, no. 7
Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), 15 June-12 September 2010, also Paris, Musée d'Orsay, 19 October 2010-23 January 2011, and Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1 March-22 May 2011, no. 31, p. 68 (ill. p. 69)
Literature
Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme: Monographie révisée, Catalogue raisonné mis à jour, Paris, 2000, no. 9.6, p. 212, ill p. 213
Sotheby’s, 19th-century Orientalist Paintings from the Collection of Terence Garnett, London, 2007, p. 36, illustrated p. 37 (color)
Laurence Des Cars, Dominique de Font-Relaux, and Edouard Papet, eds., The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), exh. cat., Milan, 2010, p. 68, illustrated p. 69 (color)