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3 Jean-Léon Gérôme FRENCH, 1824 — 1904
PRIÈRE DANS LA MOSQUÉE, circa 1875–91 signed J. L. GEROME (lower right)
oil on canvas
16 1⁄4 by 13 in. (41 by 33 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Sale: Roos, Amsterdam, April 4, 1891, lot 33, illustrated
(as La Mosquée)
Van Eeghlen (acquired at the above sale)
Arthur Atwater Kent, Sr. (1873–1949), Los Angeles (and sold, his sale, with auctioneer Roy J. Goldenberg, Los Angeles, November 3, 1949)
Private Collection (acquired from the estate of the above, 1949) Thence by descent
Sale: Sotheby’s, New York, November 3, 2015, lot 53, illustrated Private Collection, California
LITERATURE
Le Figaro illustré, July 1901, illustrated
Oeuvres de J. L. Gérôme, (Bibliothèque nationale, Paris) (possibly listed by Ackerman as Paris Photographs), III, p. 4
Gerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, London, 1986, p. 294, no. 510, illustrated (black and white)
Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, monographie révisée, catalogue raisonné mis à jour, Paris, 2000, p. 366, no. 510 (as lost),
illustrated p. 367, no. 510 (black and white)
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