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JEAN-LÉON GÉROME (FRENCH, 1824-1904)
The First Kiss of the Sun
signed 'J. L. GEROME' (lower right)
oil on linen laid down on board
211/4 x 39 1/2 in. (54 x 100.4 cm.)
Painted in 1886.
Provenance
with Boussod Valadon & Cie., Paris, 1886.
Crist Delmonico, New York.
George I. Seney sale; American Art Association, New York, 13 February 1891, lot 246.
P.A.B. Widener, Philadelphia.
with Knoedler and Co., New York.
with Scott & Fowles, New York.
Patrick A. Valentine, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Anonymous sale; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 18 April 1962, lot 76.
where purchased by Robert Isaacson.
His sale; Christie's, New York, 6 May 1999, lot 9.
Private collection, Connecticut.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 19 June 2003, lot 20, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
Fanny Field Hering, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme New York, 1892, p. 131-2.
G.M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérome, London, 1986, p. 133, pp. 258 and 259, no. 345 (illustrated p. 133).
Musée Herbert, Album de voyage des artistes en expédition au pays du Levant, Paris, 1993, p. 34.
G.M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérome 2nd ed., London, 2000, p. 316, no. 345 (illustrated pp. 152, 317).
Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme Les Orientalistes, vol. 4, Paris, 2000, pp. 316–17, no. 345.
Gérôme and Goupil: Art and Enterprise, exh. cat., Paris, 2000, p. 43.
Exhibited
Poughkeepsie, Vassar College Art Museum, Jean-Léon Gérome and his Pupils, 1967, no. 4.
Greenwich, Connecticut, Bruce Museum, Elegance and Opulence: Art of the Gilded Age, Winter 1999.
Washington, D.C., Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, 8-30 November 2007.
Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Gérôme and the Lure of the Orient, 5 February–20 July 2014.
Special notice
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