Property from the Estate of William J. Levy, Sold to Benefit the Endowed Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Study for a Portrait of a Man
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February 2, 09:59 PM GMT
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10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Property from the Estate of William J. Levy, Sold to Benefit the Endowed Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania
Jean-Léon Gérôme
French 1824 - 1904
Study for a Portrait of a Man
oil on board
board: 6 ⅝ by 4 ½ in.; 17.5 by 11.5 cm
framed: 12 ¼ by 10 in.; 31 by 25 cm
With Galerie Tanagra, Paris
In the Collection of B. Chesnais, France
Sale: Sotheby's New York, 26 October 1990, lot 17
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Monographie révisée, Paris, 2000, p.255, pl.148.9 illustrated
Gerald Ackermann has suggested that the sitter was a friend of the artist, as the painting can be seen hanging on the wall of Gérôme's studio in a photograph of circa 1890 at the Yale University Art and Literature Library.
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