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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 17, 1993 | Sotheby's | New York | 19th Century European Paintings & Sculpture | 23 | Estimates not disclosed | Le retour de la chasse - circassien a l'abreuvoir |
paintings
73.3 x 59.7 cm (28.88 x 23.5 in)
oil on canvas
signed "J. L. GEROME." (lower center, on the fountain)
The artist.
Milton Slocum Latham (1827-1882), San Francisco, acquired directly from the above.
His sale; Chickering Hall, New York, 28 March 1878, lot 76, as An Arab on Horseback, and his Two Dogs Drinking at a Fountain .
with Goupil et Cie., Paris, acquired at the above sale.
Fop Smit (1836-1886), Rotterdam, acquired directly from the above, 13 June 1878.
Jean Décaire & Associés, Montreal, 1980.
with Joan Michelman, Ltd., New York, 1982.
with Kurt E. Schon, Ltd., New Orleans, by 1982.
Coral Petroleum, Inc., Houston, by 1984.
Their sale; Sotheby"s, New York, 22 May 1985, lot 24, as Le retour de la chasse .
Anonymous sale; Sotheby"s, New York, 17 February 1993, lot 23.
with Galerie d"Orsay, Paris.
Private collection, Europe.
Their sale; Christie"s, New York, 14 February 1996, lot 35, as Le Retour de la Chasse .
Anonymous sale; Aguttes, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 19 December 2002, lot 126, as Le retour de la chasse .
with Mathaf Gallery, London, by 2003.
with Richard Green, London.
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner, 2005.
Paris, Exposition universelle , 1878, no. 365, as Retour de la chasse .
Rotterdam, Academie, Moderne Schilderijen , 1880, p. 12, no. 67, as Terugkomst van de jagt.
Washington, D. C., The National Gallery, The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse, 27 March-27 May 1984, pp. 75, 144-145, no. 35, illustrated, as The Return from the Hunt.
Gérôme Oeuvres , Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Cabinet des Estampes, 28 volumes of mounted photographs of Gérôme"s paintings and sculptures, the gift of his widow, vol. XIV, no. 7, as Cavalier abreuvant son cheval .
E. Strahan, ed., Gérôme, A Collection of the Works of J. L. Gérôme in One Hundred Photogravures, New York, 1881-83, vol. VII, pl. LXVII, illustrated, as Circassian at the Fountain and Circassian at the Watering Trough .
"Notes", The Nation , New York, 11 April 1878, p. 241.
"Literature and Art", Capital and Labour , London, 1 May 1878, p. 1878.
F. F. Hering, Gérôme, His Life and Works, New York, 1892, pp. 38, 224, pl. 193, illustrated, as Return from the Chase .
G. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, His Life, His Work, 1824-1904, Paris, 1997, p. 112, illustrated, as Return from the Hunt .
P.-L. Renié, "Works by Jean-Léon Gérôme Reproduced and Published by Goupil", Gérôme & Goupil: Art and Enterprise , exh. cat., Paris and Pittsburgh, 2000, p. 159, as Circassian at the Fountain (Circassien à l"abreuvoir) .
G. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, monographie révisée, catalogue raisonné mis à jour , Paris, 2000, pp. 294-295, no. 269, illustrated.
L. des Cars, "Gérôme: Painter of Histories", The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) , exh. cat. Paris, 2010, p. 66, ill. 30, illustrated, as Return from the Hunt .
M. Brick, "Les Animaux de Jean-Léon Gérôme" , Revue de Deux Mondes, Paris, December 2012, p. 92.
JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME (FRENCH, 1824-1904)
Retour de la chasse, Circassian à l"abreuvoir
signed "J. L. GEROME." (lower center, on the fountain)
oil on canvas
28 7/8 x 23 ½ in. (73.1 x 59.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1877.
