Jean-Léon Gérôme
, French, 1824-1904
Title
On DutyDate1870s
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
81 x 65 cm
Signedlower left: J L Gerome
Credit LinePresented, Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, 1950
Object numberNGI.4234
ProvenanceSale of Monsieur X [Henri de Rothschild], Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18 March 1933, no.30, as ‘En Faction’; Sir Alfred Chester Beatty; Presented, Sir Alfred Chester Beatty,1950.Exhibition HistoryThe East: Imagined, Experienced, Remembered. Orientalist Nineteenth Century Painting, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1988La Peinture Francais du XIXe siècle. Collection Chester Beatty de la Galerie National d'Irlande, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Quimper; Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, 1989
French 19th and 20th Century Paintings from the National Gallery of Ireland: Corot to Picasso, Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, 5 September-17 September 1996; Daimaru Museum, Kyoto, 10 October-22 October 1996; Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi, 26 October-2 December 1996; Daimaru Museum, Umeda,Osaka, 22 January-9 February 1997; Aomori Municpal Gallery of Art, Aomori, 2 April-20 April 1997
Chester Beatty: The Paintings, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 7 September 2012 - 31 August 2013
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