The Orientalist Sale
The Orientalist Sale
Property from a Private Collection
Jean-Léon Gérôme
A Veiled Beauty
Auction Closed
March 29, 02:21 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
Jean-Léon Gérôme
French
1824 - 1904
A Veiled Beauty
signed J.L.GERÔME upper right
oil on canvas
Unframed: 40.5 by 32cm., 16 by 12½in.
Framed: 52 by 43cm., 20½ by 17in.
Private collection, Westchester, New York
Sale: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15-17 December 1954, lot 213 (as Algerian Woman)
Joseph Hartman, New York (his sale: Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, New York, 12 November 1970, lot 42 (as L'Algerienne Mysterieuse))
H. Shickman Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Tannenbaum, Toronto
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 13 October 1993, lot 43
Galerie d'Orsay, Paris (by 1995)
Sale: Christie's, New York, 14 February 1996, lot 39
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Sale: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15-17 December 1954, lot 213 (as Algerian Woman)
Joseph Hartman, New York (his sale: Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, New York, 12 November 1970, lot 42 (as L'Algerienne Mysterieuse))
H. Shickman Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Tannenbaum, Toronto
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 13 October 1993, lot 43
Galerie d'Orsay, Paris (by 1995)
Sale: Christie's, New York, 14 February 1996, lot 39
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Oeuvres de J.L.Gérôme, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, XV, no. 7
F.F. Herring, Gérôme: His Life and Works, New York, 1892, p. 242 (mentioned, as Woman of Constantinople, Standing)
Lynne Thornton, Women as Portrayed in Orientalist Painting, Paris, 1985, p. 200, illustrated
Gerald Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, London, 1986, pp. 112, 240-241, no. 256, illustrated (as Woman of Constantinople, Standing)
Gerald Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme monographie révisée, catalogue raisonné mis a jour, Paris, 2000, pp. 290-91, no. 256, illustrated (as Femme de Constantinople, debout)
F.F. Herring, Gérôme: His Life and Works, New York, 1892, p. 242 (mentioned, as Woman of Constantinople, Standing)
Lynne Thornton, Women as Portrayed in Orientalist Painting, Paris, 1985, p. 200, illustrated
Gerald Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, London, 1986, pp. 112, 240-241, no. 256, illustrated (as Woman of Constantinople, Standing)
Gerald Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme monographie révisée, catalogue raisonné mis a jour, Paris, 2000, pp. 290-91, no. 256, illustrated (as Femme de Constantinople, debout)