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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 7, 2015 | Sotheby's | New York | 19th Century European Art | 46 | $****** - ****** | Marchand Ambulant Au Caire |
paintings
79 x 54.6 cm (31.1 x 21.5 in)
oil on canvas
signed J. L. GEROME (center left)
Goupil & Cie. Wallis & Co. (acquired from the above, 1869, as Marchand d’habits, Old Clothes Merchant no. 3936). Warden (1869, acquired for Alexander Turney Stewart, New York). Henry C. Gibson, Philadelphia (before 1880). David C. Lyall, Brooklyn (and sold, his sale, American Art Association, February 10, 1903, lot 89, illustrated, as A Strolling Merchant). Julius Oehme, New York (acquired at the above sale per Ackerman, 2000, and as suggested by an old label on the frame
D. Guggenheim according to the American Art Annual of 1903)
Paris, Salon, 1869, no. 1026
L’illustration: Journal Universel: Orné de gravures, vol. LIII, 1869, Paris, p. 342, illustrated p. 340 (as engraving). Théophile Gautier, Le Salon de 1869. The Tablet, “Fine Arts in France: Notes on the Paintings, &c., &c., in the Palais des Champs Elysees,” July, 24, 1869, p. 9. Louis Viardot, et al., The Masterpieces of French Art Illustrated: being a biographical history of art in France, from the earliest period to and including the Salon of 1882, Philadelphia, 1883, vol. II, p. 6. Edward Strahan, ed., The Art Treasures of America, Philadelphia, 1879, vol. I, pp. 77-8, 90, illustrated p. 76; in the 1977 facsimile edition, vol. I, pp. 78-9, 80, illustrated p. 76 (as engraving, as The Old-Clothes Dealer, Cairo). Charles Henry Hart, The American Art Review, 1.7 (May 1880), “The Public and Private Collections of the United States. II. The Collection of Mr. Henry C. Gibson, Philadelphia,” p. 296, illustrated p. 297 (as engraving, as The Old Clothes Dealer, Cairo). Gerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, with a catalogue raisonne, London, 1986, illustrated p. 80, p. 226, no. 190, illustrated p. 226 (recorded as lost). Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, monographie révisée, catalogue raisonné mis à jour, Paris, 2000, p. 272, no. 190, illustrated p. 273 (with incorrect provenance and present location)
