ID 1248160
Lot 219 | JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME (VESOUL 1824-1904 PARIS)
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
Le Général Bonaparte au Caire, ébauche
oil on canvas, unframed
12 5/8 x 16 in. (32.2 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1863-1868.
Provenance
Jean-Léon Herbert Morot-Gérôme (1908-1961), the grandson of the artist, Paris.
By descent to his heirs.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 22 June 1990, lot 38, as Napoleon at Cairo, when acquired by the present owner.
Literature
G. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, monographie révisée, catalogue raisonné mis à jour, Paris, 2000, pp. 266-267, no. 174.2, illustrated, erroneously catalogued as by Gérôme's atelier.
| Artist: | Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 - 1904) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 - 1904) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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