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Jean-Léon Gérôme
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description
- Jean-Léon Gérôme
- Portrait d’enfant
- signed J.L. GEROME and dated 1844. (center left)
- oil on canvas
- diameter: 15 in., 38.1 cm
Provenance
Private Collection, France
Didier Aaron, Paris
Acquired from the above in 1994
Didier Aaron, Paris
Acquired from the above in 1994
Literature
Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, monographie révisée, catalogue raisonné mis à jour, Paris, 2000, p. 212, no. 9.5, illustrated pp. 19, 213
Condition
Lined. On a circular canvas. Finely patterned, stable craquelure is visible on the child's face. Under UV: there is an uneven green fluorescing varnish of which the child's face and proper right shoulder have been cleaned. There are finely applied dashes of inpainting to address prior craquelure and a few scattered dots and dashes of retouching in the child's hair; finely applied dashes of old inpainting outlining the child's hair on all sides; a 1 1/2 inch wide area of inpainting on the clasp of the child's garment; and three smaller areas of inpainting to the left of his proper right cheek, at center left near the edge, and on his chest at lower right.
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In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
Dated 1844, Portrait d’enfant was completed during Jean-Léon Gérôme’s travels in Italy with his teacher, Paul Delaroche, after the closing of his Parisian atelier. It was a transformative and productive year for the young Gérôme, sketching local people, villages and nature, preferring to study from life rather than visit the great museums of Rome (Ackerman, p. 21). The artist produced at least six other head studies of rural Italian people, and the subject of the present work is likely a child of the region.