About the Artwork
Seated Woman
ca. between 1890 and 1895
Jean-Léon Gérôme
1824-1904
French
Unknown
Marble, pigment, wax
Overall: 16 15/16 × 13 3/4 × 13 3/4 inches (43 × 35 × 35 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
1997.1
Copyright Not Evaluated
Markings
Signed, left side of base: J. L. GEROME
Provenance
Aimé Morot [1850-1913] (Paris, France). by 1996 (Galerie Elstir, Paris)
1997-present, sold to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"La chronique des arts. Principales acquisitions des musées en 1997." Gazette des Beaux-Arts (March 1998): p. 64, no. 256 (ill.).
Ackerman, Gerald M. Jean-Léon Gérôme: Monographie révisée, catalogue raisonné mis à jour. Paris, 2000, pp. 195 (ill.), 197, 404, no. S.70 (ill.).
Darr, Alan and T. Albainy, "Acquisitions of European sculpture and decorative arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1988 - 1999," The Burlington Magazine 142 (June 2000), p. 412, pl. XXIII (ill.).
Sotheby's Paris, "Tableaux et Dessins du XIX Siècle," June 25, 2008, addendum concerning lot 38, p. 16 (ill.).
des Cars, Laurence, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, and Édouard Papet, eds. Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904). L’histoire en spectacle. Exh. cat., J. Paul Getty Museum, Musée d’Orsay, and Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. Paris, 2010, pp. 295, 319, cat. 186 (ill.).
des Cars, Laurence, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, and Édouard Papet, eds. The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904). Exh. cat., J. Paul Getty Museum, Musée d’Orsay, and Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. Paris, 2010, pp. 294, 319, cat. 186 (color ill.).
Syson, Luke, Sheena Wagstaff, Emerson Bowyer, and Brinda Kumar. Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2018, pp. 214, 248 (fig. 106).
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Jean-Léon Gérôme, Seated Woman, ca. between 1890 and 1895, marble, pigment, wax. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 1997.1.
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