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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 13, 2018 | Artcurial | Paris | Old Master & 19th Century Art | 93 | $****** - ****** | Deer Hunting Approaching In The Highlands, Scotland |
paintings
25 x 44 cm (9.84 x 17.32 in)
oil on canvas
Dedicated and signed 'To my daughter Suzanne / JL Gérôme' in lower right
Given to Suzanne Gérôme by his father, around 1900;
Given to Gaspard Felix Tournachon, said Nadar, about 1904;
Given by Nadar to his collaborator to Jules Bourgeois, around 1904 - 1909;
Given by Jules Bourgeois to his goddaughter Angèle Saverse, in 1910;
By descent to his son Guy Saverse, in 1979;
Transmitted to his niece Christiane Bonafède, in 1984;
Then by descent;
Private Collection of South East France
On his original canvas
Dedicated and signed 'To my daughter Suzanne / JL Gérôme' in lower right
The Two Majesties, oil on canvas, signed, by J. L. Gérôme
h: 25 w: 44 cm
Ackerman decrypts the image, staging the two forces of Nature face to face, as "perhaps an allegory of Napoleon". The authors of the catalog of the 2011 exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay recall that Gérôme identified with the fawn, and that the press adulait or caricature according to this comparison. The emperor and the academic master share the fact of having the word "Leo" in their name or first name, and moreover the lion is the iconographic attribute of Saint Jerome.
Around 1880, the artist, friend and admirer of the animal sculptors Barye and Frémiet, began to study felines in the garden of plants and in the menageries of traveling circuses for his painting 'Last prayers of the Christian martyrs', in which a large lion occupies the left part. The studies for this historical reconstruction are developed in several paintings where the fawn dominates orientalist landscapes, desert or solitary valleys. For Gerome, the lion is a virile power, a resting force: his phallocratic spirit does not know that it is the females who hunt. Subsequently, he arranged at home a menagerie with a lion in a cage.
The posterity of these images with the wild beast on a rock overlooking a vast space is large and sometimes unexpected, from the 'sleeping Bohemian' of the Douanier Rousseau (where the full moon has replaced the sun) to certain scenes and the poster of the 'Lion King' from Disney Studios. Our composition inspired the Canadian poet Charles Gill a sonnet published in 1919 entitled, "The Three Majesties" and thus dedicated:
"To my illustrious master Gérôme
Written at the bottom of an engraving
Representing his masterpiece
"The Two Majesties" ".
Lion with a powerful forehead, father of this lion
Who looks astonished, the sun disappears;
You who lent your help to the construction
From the neo-Greek temple, and became his high priest;
You who can penetrate in full passion
The ages gone by, and make them appear
Before future times, indefatigable master
Which increases to a degree your high nation;
You who, on Divine Art, dragged the veil,
To show us your immense sky in the open,
Hi ! - Three majesties ennoble your canvas ...
Between the wild Imperator of the desert
And the dazzling of the infinite vault,
I see you shine, majesty of engineering.
1. Paris, reissued 2000, no. 322 and 322.2, p. 310 and 311
Sold 257,000 €
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