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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 31, 2018 | Christie's | New York | European Art: Part I | 19 | $****** - ****** | Corps de garde d'arnautes au Caire |
paintings
50.2 x 37.5 cm (19.76 x 14.76 in)
oil on panel
signed 'JL. GEROME' (on the wall, lower left)
The artist.
with Goupil et Cie., Paris, by July 1861.
Henry Stametz-Mayer (d. 1901), Vienna, acquired directly from the above, 1861.
with Goupil et Cie., Paris, acquired directly from the above, March 1863.
Simon van Walchren, Amersfoort, acquired directly from the above, 21 April 1863.
with Goupil et Cie., acquired directly from the above, 12 January 1864.
with Galerie François Petit, Paris, acquired directly from the above, 21 January 1864.
George Schlotel (1806-1884), London.
His sale; Christie's, London, 25 April 1885, lot 66, as The Guard Room: Cairo.
with Volkins Gallery, London, acquired at the above sale.
Lilian Ada Farey-Jones (1906-1981), Surrey.
Her sale; Christie's, London, 21 February 1975, lot 151, as Arabs Resting in a Doorway.
with The Fine Art Society, London, by 1978.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 1 November 1999, lot 38.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
London, Fine Art Society, Eastern Encounters: Orientalist Painters of the Nineteenth Century, 26 June-28 July 1978, pp. 43-44, no. 32, illustrated.
Oeuvres de J. L. Gérôme, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, VIII, no. 1.
The Art Journal, vol. 5, 1879, illustrated opp. p. 41, as A Guard-House in Cairo.
F. F. Hering, Gérôme, The life and works of Jean Léon Gérôme, New York, 1892, p. 120, as Arnauts of Cairo.
G. M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, with a catalogue raisonné, London, 1986, pp. 50, 212-213, no. 137, illustrated, as Arnauts of Cairo at the Gate of Babel-Nasr.
G. M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, His Life, His Work, Paris, 1997, pp. 44-45, illustrated, as Arnauts of Cairo at the Beb en-Nasr.
G. M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Monographie revisée et catalogue raisonné mis à jour (Les Orientalistes, vol. 4), Paris, 2000, pp. 43, 250-251, no. 137, illustrated.
signed 'JL. GEROME' (on the wall, lower left)
oil on panel
19 ¾ x 14 ¾ in. (50.2 x 37.5 cm.)
Painted in 1861.
