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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 24, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | European Art | 4 | $****** - ****** | LE COMBAT DE COQS |
paintings
39.5 x 55.2 cm (15.55 x 21.73 in)
oil on canvas
signed J.L. GEROME (in red, lower left)
Georges Petit, Paris
Goupil, Paris (acquired from the above, February 17, 1865, no. 1529)
Le Comte Karoly, Vienna (acquired from the above, October 1866)
Le Comte d'Aguile, Spain (and sold, his sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, February 21-22, 1868, lot 16)
Kaëser, Vienna
Goupil, Paris (acquired from the above, May 25, 1869, no. 4209, with frame)
Tuckerman(n), possibly New York, Cape Ann, Massachusetts, or Newport, Rhode Island (acquired from the above, October 21, 1869, and possibly loaned to Messrs. Williams and Everett, Boston, 1872)
Goupil, Paris (acquired from the above May 10, 1880, no. 14523)
E. Sécrétan, Paris (acquired from the above, June 1880)
De(i)sider Tope(r)czer (by 1956)
Clifford Hills, United States (acquired from the above through French & Co., 1958, and sold, his estate sale, 1986)
Gary Pizzitolia, Avon, Connecticut (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above
Possibly, Boston, Williams and Everett, 1872
Bordeaux, Musée Goupil; New York, Dahesh Museum of Art; Pittsburgh, The Frick Art & Historical Center, Gérôme & Goupil: Art and Enterprise, October 2000-August 2001, no. 34
Gérôme, oeuvres, Paris, Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale (28 volumes of mounted photographs of Gérôme's paintings and sculptures, the gift of his widow), vol. 18, p. 2
M. Prost, Catalogue of the works of Gérôme, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1883 (1847, Jeune Grecs faisant batter des coqs…une reduction du tableau (h. 0,39, l. 0,55), s’est vendue 5 550 Fr, Paris, vente du comte d’Acquila, fév. 68, p. 3r)
Gerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme with a Catalogue raisonné, London, 1986, p. 186, no. 15, illustrated p. 187 with related photogravure (as "lost")
Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, monographie révisée, catalogue raisonné mis à jour, Paris, 2000, p. 212, no. 15, illustrated with related photogravure
Régine Bigorne, “Visions of Antiquity,” Gérôme & Goupil: Art and Enterprise, exh. cat., Bordeaux, Musée Goupil, New York, Dahesh Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, the Frick Art & Historical Center, 2000, p. 94, no. 34, illustrated p. 92 with related albumin silver print
signed J.L. GEROME (in red, lower left)
oil on canvas
15 1/2 by 21 3/4 in
39.5 by 55.2 cm
