JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME (FRENCH, 1850-1913)

Lot 154
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Lot 154 | JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME (FRENCH, 1850-1913)
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JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME (FRENCH, 1850-1913)

Bethsabée (Bathsheba)

inscribed and signed 'à mon ami Mercie/J L. Gérome' (lower center)

oil on canvas

23 5/8 x 38 3/8 in. (60.2x 97.5 cm.)

Painted circa 1889





Provenance

The artist.

Maurice-Jean-Antonin Mercié (1845-1916), Paris, acquired directly from the above.

His estate sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18-21 December 1918, lot 18.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 24 October 1990, lot 81.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 1995, lot 95.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.



Literature

F. F. Hering, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, New York, 1892, p. 274, illustrated opp. p. 212 with a photogravure of the larger version, as Bathsheba.

‘A l'Hôtel Drouot,’ The New York Herald, Paris, 18 December 1918, p. 4.

Valemont, ‘Les grande ventes,’ Le Figaro, Paris, 22 December 1918, p. 3.

A. Damécourt, ‘Nos échos,’ Les Cousin Pons, Paris, 1 January 1919, p. 431.

G. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, His Life, His Work 1824-1904, Paris, 1997, p. 133, illustrated, as Bathsheba.

G. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, monographie révisée, catalogue raisonné mis à jour, Paris, 2000, pp. 320-321, no. 355.2, illustrated, as Bethsabée, esquisse à l'huile.

L. R. Huber, D. W. Clanton Jr., and J. S. Webster, ‘Biblical Subjects in Art,’ Teaching the Bible Through Popular Culture and the Arts, Atlanta, 2007, p. 197, as Bathsheba.
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