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Property from the Najd Collection

Jean-Léon Gérôme

The Elders’ Procession

Lot Closed

March 30, 12:10 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Najd Collection

Jean-Léon Gérôme

French

1824 - 1904

The Elders’ Procession


oil on canvas

Unframed: 24.5 by 35cm., 9½ by 13¾in.

Framed: 52 by 61.5cm., 20½ by 24¼in.


We are grateful to Dr Emily M. Weeks for her assistance in cataloguing this work which will be included in her revision of the artist's catalogue raisonné by Gerald M. Ackerman.

Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 28 May 1980, lot 93 (as Scene de rue dans la ville arabe)
Sale: Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 29 October 1981, lot 197
Mathaf Gallery, London (purchased at the above sale)
Purchased from the above
Gerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, Paris, 1986, pp. 280-81, no. 445, catalogued & illustrated (as The Elder's Procession / La Procession de l'ancien and dated circa 1897)
Caroline Juler, Najd Collection of Orientalist Paintings, London, 1991, p. 138, cited, p. 143, catalogued & illustrated
Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Monographie révisée, Paris, 2000, pp. 348-49, no. 445, catalogued & illustrated (as La Procession de l'ancien and dated circa 1897)