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 thi💟s 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
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)
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)