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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 24, 2018 | Sotheby's | London | The Orientalist Sale | 8 | $****** - ****** | A SULTAN AT PRAYER | |||
Nov 8, 2017 | Bonhams | New York | 19th Century European Paintings | 51 | $****** - ****** | Sultan persan en prière |
paintings
42 x 33 cm (16.54 x 12.99 in)
oil on canvas
signed J. L. GEROME lower left
Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris, 1887 (acquired from the artist)
Henry Graves, Orange, New Jersey, 1887 (acquired from the above. Graves (1868-1953), was a banker, railway baron and art collector. An ardent watch collector, Graves was a patron of Patek Philippe, competing with James Ward Packard, the automobile manufacturer, for ownership of the most complicated watch in the world. In 1927 Packard commissioned a complicated watch but, not to be outdone, Graves surpassed his rival in 1933 to become the owner of the most complicated watch ever made, sold at Sotheby's in 2014; his sale, The American Art Association Anderson Galleries, New York, 25 February 1909, lot 6)
J.F. Fredericks (acquired at the above sale)
Mary Clark Thompson, New York
Sale: Parke Bernet, New York, 8 March 1947, lot 141
W. C. Haunt (acquired at the above sale)
Private collection, New Jersey
Gerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, with a Catalogue Raisonné, 1986, London, p. 294, no. 508, catalogued (as Prière à la mosquée, listed as lost)
Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme: monographie révisée, catalogue raisonné mis à jour, 2000, p. 364 no. 508, catalogued & illustrated (as Sultan persan en prière; listed as lost)
signed J. L. GEROME lower left
oil on canvas
42 by 33cm., 16.5 by 13in.
