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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 30, 2021 | Sotheby's | New York | Master Paintings Part II | 670 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | The Story of Anacreon (Four Works): Cupid at the Door in a Rainstorm; Young Love's Shivering Limbs the Embers Warm; Cupid Runs out the Door; The Poet Dreams of Cupid by the Fire |
paintings
60 x 81.3 cm (23.63 x 32 in)
each: oil on canvas
Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 11 May 1933, lot 76A (the first as l'Amour arrive); possibly, lot 76B (the third as Un intérieur grec); lot 76C (the second as Le méme intérieur); lot 76D (the fourth as Encore le méme intérieur);
Possibly, anonymous sale, Paris, 1945 (as cited in E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire Peintres Sculpteurs, Paris, 1966 (as "four scenes in the life of Eros");
Private collection, Spain, since 1994;
Private collection, United States.
Paris, Salon, 1899, no. 860 (ex cat; the second work, and possibly more from the cycle being exhibited).
J. Claretie, Deuxième série de Peintres & Sculpteurs contemporains, Paris, 1881, vol. 2, pp. 58-60;F. F. Hering, Gérôme: The Life and Works of Jean-Léon Gérôme, New York, 1892, p. 271;Possibly, Michel, Le Journal, supplement, May 1899;C. H. Stranahan, A History of French Painting from Its Earliest to Its Latest Practice, New York, 1899, p. 316 (cycle of 3);Possibly, V. Guillemin, "Etude sur le peinture et sculpteur J. L. Gérôme," in Académie des Sciences, Belles-lettres & Arts de Besançon; Procès-Verbaux & Mémoires, Année 1904, Besançon, 1905-06, pp. 167-8; Gerald M. Ackerman,"Three Drawings by Gérôme in the Yale Collection," in Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin, vol. 36, no. 1, 1976, pp. 14-17 (mentioned cycle of "three or four");Musée de Vesoul, Gérôme: Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1824-1904; peintre, sculpteur et graveur, Vesoul, 1981, p. 84;G. M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, Paris, 1986, p. 116, reproduced p. 126, (one of the four), p. 246, cat no. 288, 289, 290 & 291 (as Anacréon 1: Cupid at the Door in a Rainstorm / Anacréon 1: L'Amour arrive, dated 1881-89 as lost; Anacréon 2: Young Love's Shivering Limbs the Embers Warm, as lost; Anacréon 3: Cupid Runs out the Door / Anacréon 3: Cupidon s'enfuit, dated 1881-89; Anacréon 4: The Poet Dreams of Cupid by the Fire / Anacréon 4: Le Poète rêve à Cupidon près du feu, dated 1881-89, as lost);Possibly, J. E. Hargrove, The French Academy: Classicism and its Antagonists, Newark, Delaware, 1990, p. 174;G. M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Monographie révisée, Paris, 2000, p. 117, reproduced p. 132, reproduced pp. 300-01, cat. no. 288, 289, 290 & 291 (as Anacréon 1: L'Amour arrive, dated 1882-89; Anacréon 2: L'Amour moillé, dated 1881-89; Anacréon 3: Cupidon s'enfuit, dated 1881-92; Anacréon 4: Le Poète rêve à Cupidon près du feu, dated 1881-89).
