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Lot 10
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Gustave Moreau

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Description

  • Gustave Moreau
  • Suzanne et les vieillards
  • Signed Gustave Moreau (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 31 7/8 by 25 1/2 in.
  • 81.3 by 66 cm

Provenance

Collection Allard and Noel (acquired from the artist 1895)

P. Chavanne, Paris

Sale: Hotel Drout, Paris, 17 December 1906, lot 38 (illustrated as La Chaste Suzanne)

Private Collection, Turin

Private Collection, Japan

Sale: Christie's, New York, November 18, 1998, lot 20

Exhibited

New York, Helly Nahmad Gallery, The Poet & The Siren, A collection of works by Gustave Moreau - ARMAN The Day After, 3 November - 31 December 2008, 2008

Literature

A. Renan, Gustave Moreau, Paris, 1900, p. 34

Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Complete Edition of the Finished Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, Fribourg, 1977, no. 419, pp. 178, 377, illustrated p.227

Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Paris, 1995, p. 204, illustrated p.205