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Antoine-Jean Gros, called Baron Gros

A head study of the Marquis Pierre Henri Gaston de Livron, aide-de-camp to Marshal Joachim Murat

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January 26, 05:50 PM GMT

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40,000 - 60,000 USD

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Antoine-Jean Gros, called Baron Gros

Paris 1771 - 1835 Meudon

A head study of the Marquis Pierre Henri Gaston de Livron, aide-de-camp to Marshal Joachim Murat


oil on canvas

canvas: 7¼ by 8½ in.; 18.5 by 21 cm.

framed: 14½ by 13½ in.; 36.8 by 34.3 cm.

The collection of the artist;
His studio sale, Paris, 23 November 1835, lot 28 (as "portrait en petite proportion du marquis de Livron");
Auguste-Joseph Carrier (1797 - 1875), painter and miniaturist, by 1867;
His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 5 May 1875, lot 111;
Family of Général Livron;
Private collection, Paris, by 1955;
Germain Seligman (1893-1978), Paris and New York;
Private collection, France;
Anonymous sale ("Ancienne Collection Germain Seligman"), Paris, Christie's, 25 June 2019, lot 48.
New York, Jacques Seligmann & Co.; Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Art; Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, 15 November 1955 - 15 April 1956, no. 10.
J. B. Delestre, Gros: Sa vie et ses ouvrages, Paris 1867, pp. 163-170, p. 373;
J. Tripier Le Franc, Histoire de la vie et de la mort du Baron Gros, Paris 1880, pp. 312, 675;
Baron Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835): painter of battles, the first romantic painter, exhibition catalogue, New York 1955, p. 30, cat. no. 10;
J. Richardson (ed.), The Collection of Germain Seligman, paintings, drawings and works of art, New York 1979, cat. no. 31, reproduced.