LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
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Edition:
The canvas has been relined. There is some very fine, unobtrusive and stable hairline craquelure to some of the figures visible upon close inspection. Under ultraviolet light there are scattered small spots of retouching in some of the figures, and a larger area of circa 6 by 4cm in the sky in the upper right quadrant. There are some very fine lines of retouching to a surface scratch circa 11 cm long in the sky in the upper left. There are patches of residual varnish, especially in the sand and the figures, which make these areas hard to read under ultra-violet light. Overall the work presents well and is ready to hang.
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Jean-Lon Grme
Condition:
The canvas has been relined. There is some very fine, unobtrusive and stable hairline craquelure to some of the figures visible upon close inspection. Under ultraviolet light there are scattered small spots of retouching in some of the figures, and a larger area of circa 6 by 4cm in the sky in the upper right quadrant. There are some very fine lines of retouching to a surface scratch circa 11 cm long in the sky in the upper left. There are patches of residual varnish, especially in the sand and the figures, which make these areas hard to read under ultra-violet light. Overall the work presents well and is ready to hang. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The condition report is provided to assist you with assessing the condition of the lot and is for guidance only. Any reference to condition in the condition report for the lot does not amount to a full description of condition. The images of the lot form part of the condition report for the lot. Certain images of the lot provided online may not accurately reflect the actual condition of the lot. In particular, the online images may represent colors and shades which are different to the lot's actual color and shades. The condition report for the lot may make reference to particular imperfections of the lot but you should note that the lot may have other faults not expressly referred to in the condition report for the lot or shown in the online images of the lot. The condition report may not refer to all faults, restoration, alteration or adaptation. The condition report is a statement of opinion only. For that reason, the condition report is not an alternative to taking your own professional advice regarding the condition of the lot. NOTWITHSTANDING THIS ONLINE CONDITION REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE/BUSINESS APPLICABLE TO THE RESPECTIVE SALE.
Exhibited:
Paris, Salon, 1857, no. 1157 (as Recrues gyptiennes traversant le dsert) Possibly, New York, French Gallery, The First Exhibition of Paintings by Artists of the French School in New York, 1857, no. 89, included in the catalogue (the present work or its reduction) London, Royal Academy of Art; Washington, D. C. , The National Gallery, The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse, 1984, no. 27, illustrated in the catalogue Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung; Brussels, Muses royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique; Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charit; Orientalismus in Europa: Von Delacroix bis Kandinsky, 2011, illustrated in the catalogue
Literature:
Thophile Gautier, 'Salon de 1857 (IV)', in L'Artiste, 14 June 1857, p. 191 Thophile Gautier, 'Salon de 1857 (IV): MM Grme, Mottez', in L'Artiste, 5 July 1857, p. 247 Possibly, Goupil stock book vol. 3, 1866, no. 2051 (the present work or its reduction listed) E. Galichon, 'M. Grme, Peintre ethnographe', in La Gazette des Beaux-Arts, I, 1868, p. 149 Charles Timbal, 'Les Artistes contemporains: Grme (tude biographique)', in La Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 14, 1876, p. 335 Frdric Vors, 'Jean-Lon Grme', in The Art Amateur, 1.4, September 1879, p. 71 Fanny Field Hering, Grme, His Life and Work, New York, 1892, pp. 65, 66 & 80 (quoting Gautier, in his 1857 article describing canvases painted for the 1857 Salon) Possibly, Fanny Field Hering, Grme, His Life and Work, New York, 1892, p. 27 (quoting Gautier in his 1857 article, 'Grme: Pictures, Studies, Sketches of Travel') Gerald M. Ackerman & Richard Ettinghausen, Jean-Lon Grme, Dayton, Ohio, 1972, p. 38, cited (and apparently confused with exhibited work, no. 6) Gerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Lon Grme, Paris, 1986, p. 45, catalogued & illustrated, p. 46, described, pp. 198-99, no. 67, catalogued & illustrated (mistakenly as on panel) Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Lon Grme: His Life, His Work, Paris, 1997, p. 47, catalogued & illustrated, pp. 47-48, described Caroline Juler, Najd Collection of Orientalist Paintings, London, 1991, p. 127, catalogued & illustrated, p. 129, described Lynne Thornton, Du Maroc Aux Indes, Voyages en Orient, Paris, 1998, p. 152 (mistakenly as on panel) Grme & Goupil, Art and Enterprise, exh. cat., Paris, 2000, p. 113, no. 61 (a photogravure of the present work or of its reduction illustrated), p. 115, no. 61 (the present work catalogued), p. 34, cited, p. 110, cited, p. 158 (a photogravure of the present work or of its reduction illustrated), p. 165, cited Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Lon Grme, Monographie rvise, Paris, 2000, p. 44, described, p. 45, catalogued & illustrated (mistakenly as on panel), pp. 230-31, no. 67, catalogued & illustrated (mistakenly as on panel) Alan C. Braddock, Displacing Orientalism: Thomas Eakins and Ethnographic Modernity, Ph.D. diss, University of Delaware, 2002, p. 59 and passim Peter Benson Miller, 'Grme and Ethnographic Realism at the Salon of 1857' in Reconsidering Grme, eds. Scott Allan and Mary Morton, Los Angeles, 2010, p. 156, pl. 8, catalogued & illustrated (mistakenly as on panel), pp. 107, 112, 113, 115, 117, discussed The Spectacular Art of Jean-Lon Grme (1824-1904), exh. cat., Los Angeles, Paris, Madrid, 2010, pp. 97 & 183, cited (confused with reduction on panel), p. 198, cited, p. 226, no. 103, catalogued & illustrated (mistakenly as on panel), p. 270, cited Peter Benson Miller, 'John Frederick Lewis at the Exposition Universelle' in The Poetics and Politics of Place: Ottoman Istanbul and British Orientalism, eds. Zeynep Inankur, Reina Lewis, and Mary Roberts, Istanbul, 2011, pp. 263, 267 & 268, described
Provenance:
Possibly, Goupil & Cie. (by 1866, the present work or its reduction) Possibly, Van Walchren Van Wadenoyen, The Hague (acquired from the above on 19 April 1866, the present work or its reduction) Goupil & Cie., Paris (by 1869) Salomon Goldschmidt, Paris (purchased from the above in 1871; his sale: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 14-17 May 1898) Mrs Marshall A. Robert, New York (by 1967 or 1968) Sale: Christie's, London, 16 March 1979, lot 196 Sale: Christie's, London, 20 March 1981, lot 100 Kurt E. Schon, Ltd., New Orleans, Louisiana Coral Petroleum, Inc., Texas (sale: Sotheby's, New York, 22 May 1985, lot 36) Mathaf Gallery, London Purchased from the above