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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 2, 2020 | Sotheby's | London | European & British Art | 28 | $****** - ****** | Jeune Fille du Caire |
paintings
81 x 65 cm (31.89 x 25.59 in)
oil on canvas
signed J.L. GEROME lower right
Goupil & Cie., Paris (purchased from the artist on 20 May 1882; as Femme du Caire, fumant cigarette )
Delille, cercle de l"Union, Limoges (purchased from Goupil/Boussod Valadon & Cie. on 30 January 1888 as Femme du Cairo fumant )
Possibly, Knoedler, Paris (by 1897)
Possibly, Blakeslee Galleries, New York (acquired from the above on 2 February 1898 as Woman of Cairo )
"The Property of a French Club" (sale: Christie"s, London, 25 November 1983, lot 74, as In the Doorway )
Mathaf Gallery, London (by 1985)
Purchased from the above
Goupil stock book 10, no. 16103, p. 215
Goupil stock book 11, no. 16103, p. 47
Goupil stock book 12, no. 18686, formerly 16103, p. 1
Oeuvres de J.L. Gérôme, vol. XIX, no. 2
Catalogue de Paris , 1883, p. 63 (as Femme du Caire )
Knoedler"s stock book 4, no. 8282
Lynne Thornton, Women as Portrayed in Orientalist Painting, vol. 3, Paris, 1985, p. 115
Gerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme , Paris, 1986, p. 115, illustrated (as Woman of Cairo ); pp. 250-51, no. 308, catalogued & illustrated (as Woman of Cairo/Femme du Caire and dated 1882)
Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme: His Life, His Work , Paris, 1997, pp. 118-19, catalogued & illustrated (as Woman of Cairo and mistakenly as signed lower left)
Caroline Juler, Najd Collection of Orientalist Paintings , London, 1991, p. 141, described; p. 152b, catalogued & illustrated (dated 1882)
Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Monographie révisée , Paris, 2000, p. 126, illustrated (as Femme du Caire [fumant une cigarette] ); p. 304, no. 308, catalogued & illustrated (as Femme du Caire [fumant une cigarette] ; and dated 1882)
Piya Pal-Lipinski, The Exotic Woman in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction and Culture: A Reconsideration , New Hampshire, 2005, pp. 7-8, described
Property from the Najd Collection
Jean-Léon Gérôme
French
1824 - 1904
Jeune Fille du Caire
signed J.L. GEROME lower right
oil on canvas
Unframed: 81 by 65cm., 31¾ by 25½in.
Framed: 125.5 by 108cm., 49½ by 42½in.
We are grateful to Dr Emily M. Weeks for her assistance in cataloguing this work which will be included in her revision of the artist"s catalogue raisonné by Gerald M. Ackerman.
