Gustave Moreau

Antony Roux (1833–1913), Marseille;

Comtesse Pierre-Louis de Roederer (1863–1922), née Louise de Saint-Alary , Paris;

Thence by descent to her daughter and son-in-law, Comtesse de Rochefort (1893–1988), née Régine Roederer and Comte Gérard Moulins de Rochefort (1886–1965), Paris;

Georges Wildenstein (1892–1963), Paris;

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, ERR no. W156;

Central Collecting Point, Munich, no. 212/34;

Repatriated to France and restituted to the Wildenstein Collection, Paris;

Daniel Wildenstein (1917–2001), Paris. 

Private collection, Japan, purchased from the above, c. 1971.

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition Gustave Moreau, Paris 1906, no. 113;

Tokyo, Tokyo Central Museum of Art; Osaka, Fujikawa Gallery; Fukuoka, Fujikawa Gallery, Gustave Moreau: World Treasures, 26 October – 22 December 1971, no. 5;

Yamanashi, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art; Kamakura, Museum of Modern Art; Mie, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Gustave Moreau et le Symbolisme, Yamanashi, 9 September – 14 October 1984, Kamakura, 27 October – 2 December 1984, Mie, 4 January – 11 February 1985, no. 57;

Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Gustave Moreau Symboliste, 14 March – 25 May 1986, no. 39;

Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, Gustave Moreau, Tokyo, 21 March – 14 May 1995; Kyoto, 23 May – 9 July 1995, no. 78. 

Exposition Gustave Moreau, exh. cat., Paris 1906, p. 40, no. 113;

Gustave Moreau: World Treasures, exh. cat., Tokyo 1971, n.p., no. 5, reproduced in colour (erroneously catalogued as Orpheus);

P.-L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Sa vie, son œuvre, catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre achevé, Freiburg 1976, pp. 100 and 306, no. 104, reproduced pp. 100 and 306;

P.-L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Complete edition of the finished paintings, watercolours and drawings, London 1977, p. 312, no. 104, reproduced;

P.-L. Mathieu, in Gustave Moreau et le Symbolisme, G. Lacambre (ed.), exh. cat., Tokyo 1984, pp. 91–92, no. 57, reproduced in colour;

G. Lacambre, in Gustave Moreau Symboliste, M. Karabelnik-Matta et al. (eds), exh. cat., Zürich 1986, p. 150, no. 39, reproduced;

P.-L. Mathieu, Tout l'œuvre peint de Gustave Moreau, Paris 1991, p. 90, no. 128, reproduced;

C. Kitazaki, in Gustave Moreau, C. Kitazaki et al. (eds), exh. cat, Kyoto 1995, pp. 208–9, no. 78, reproduced;

P.-L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Monographie et nouveau catalogue de l'œuvre achevé, Paris 1998, p. 309, no. 118, reproduced.