GUSTAVE MOREAU (FRENCH, 1826-1898)

Lot 44
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ID 819743
Lot 44 | GUSTAVE MOREAU (FRENCH, 1826-1898)
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GUSTAVE MOREAU (FRENCH, 1826-1898)

La mort de Sapho

signed '-Gustave. Moreau-' (lower right); titled, indistinctly dedicated and signed '_Sapho_ à Monsieur Laniel_/-Gustave Moreau-' (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

32 x 24 1/2 in. (81.3 x 62.2 cm.)

Painted circa 1872





Provenance

The artist.

Mr. Laniel, acquired directly from the above, January 1874.

(possibly) Émile Straus, (1844-1929), Paris.

Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881-1957), Paris, by 1906.

Alphonse Willems (1839-1912), Brussels.

His sale; Galerie J. & A. Le Roy Frères, Paris, 12 May 1921, no. 37.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 June 1995, lot 21, as The Death of Sappho.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.



Literature

(Probably) A. Baillehache-Lamotte, Nouveau catalogue de l'œuvre de Gustave Moreau remis à jour en 1915, Paris, p. 62, catalogue raisonné manuscript.

P. L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, sa vie, son oeuvre, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre achevé, Paris, 1976, p. 312, no. 140, illustrated.

P. L. Mathieu, Complete Edition of the Finished Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings, Oxford, 1977, p. 319, no. 140, illustrated, as The Death of Sappho.

P. L. Mathieu, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Gustave Moreau, Les Classiques de l'Art, Paris, 1991, p. 95, no. 164, illustrated.

P. L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: The Assembler of Dreams 1826-1898, Paris, 2010, p. 89, illustrated, as Sappho.



Exhibited

(possibly) Paris, Galerie George Petit, Exposition Gustave Moreau, 1906, no. 53.

Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Gustave Moreau, Between Epic and Dream, 29 September 1998-4 January 1999, p. 129, no. 55, illustrated, as The Death of Sappho.
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