JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME | Étude pour Solitude, ébauche

Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, monographie révisée, catalogue raisonné mis à jour, Paris, 2000, p. 340, no. 425.2, illustrated p. 341

Lined. The surface presents well. There are a few minor pin dot surface accretions and abrasions and a very few barely visible pin dot losses. There is an approximately 2 inch long diagonal surface scratch in the water at lower center, though this could possibly be inherent. Under UV: varnish fluoresces green unevenly. There are two thin diagonal lines of repair (one 4 1/2 inches long and the other 2 1/2 inches) extending from the water through the trees near the right edge (both are visible to the naked eye) with some surrounding dots of inpainting. Additional scattered dashes of inpainting are visible at center and upper center in the trees, lower center in the water, and in the sky. Finely applied inpainting to address prior frame abrasion scattered at the edges.
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This work will be included in the revision of Gerald Ackerman’s Jean-Léon Gérôme catalogue raisonné now in preparation by Emily M. Weeks, Ph.D.