Cleopatra and Caesar. Jean-Léon Gérôme
oil on canvas
30.5 by 23cm., 12 by 9in.
Provenance
Aimé Morot (1850-1913, the artist's son-in-law, married to Gérôme's daughter Suzanne Mélaine Gérôme. His Monument à Gérôme in the Musée d'Orsay depicts Gérôme at work sculpting his Gladiators in 1878)
Sale: Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, New York, 1962
Schweitzer Gallery, New York (by 1966)
Mme Huisse, Rouen (by 1970)
Private Collection, Paris (by 1984)
Private Collection, Germany
Purchased from the above by the previous owner in 1994
Literature
Gerald Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, London, 1986, p. 218, no. 159B, described
Gerald Ackerman, La Vie et l'oeuvre de Jean-Léon Gérôme, Courbevoie-Paris, 2000, p. 258, no. 159.2, described
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