Jean-Léon Gérôme

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 USD

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Description

Jean-Léon Gérôme
Dante (He Hath Seen Hell)
signed J.L. GEROME (lower right)
oil on panel
14 7/8 by 22 in.
37.8 by 55.9 cm

Provenance

Goupil & Cie., Paris
Van Palandz, La Haye (acquired from the above in 1869)
Fop Smith, La Haye, 1879
Sale: Vak, Amsterdam, February 4, 1919, no. 147, illustrated
Gertrude Stein Gallery
Knoedler Gallery, Inc., New York
Hammer Galleries, Inc., New York
Joey & Toby Tanenbaum, Toronto
Stuart Pivar, New York

Exhibited

Hempstead, Long Island, New York, The Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Art Pompier: Anti-Impressionism - 19th Century French Salon Painting, 1974, no. 45, illustrated

Literature

Gerald Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme with a Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 2000, p. 252, no. 147, illustrated p. 253

Catalogue Note

Painted circa 1864-71, Gerald Ackerman notes that this work is the second version of a painting executed by Gérôme in 1864 (location unknown).

Born in Florence to a bourgeois family of noble ancestry, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) played a part in the internal politics struggles that divided his native city. In 1302 he and his associates lost their campaign and were exiled. He wrote The Divine Comedy while in exile in the first decade of the fourteenth century. He never saw Florence again.