
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Portrait of a Woman
Jean Léon Gérôme · 1851
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold Hotel Drouot, Paris, by 1964 as anonymous, bought by Giancarlo Baroni, Paris [oral communication, Giancarlo Baroni and Jean Luc Baroni, March 15, 2003]; sold by Giancarlo Baroni to Hans Calmann, London by 1964 [according to Calmann's draft memoirs as reported by Jon Whitely, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, letter of February 20, 2003, in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1964.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, Jean-Leon Gérôme (1824-1904): Paintings and Drawings, November 10–December 31, 1972, cat. 2; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, January 26–March 11, 1973; Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, April 6–May 20, 1973..
- Gifu, Japan, Museum of Fine Arts, Paris around 1882, November 3–December 19, 1982, cat. 21; Japan, Kamakura, January 20–February 20, 1983.
- Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Jean-Léon Gérôme, June 15-September 12, 2010; Paris, Musée d'Orsay, October 18, 2010-January 23, 2011; Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, March 1-May 22, 2011.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1964–65 (Chicago, 1965), p. 29.
- Robert Rosenblum, Ingres (New York, 1967), p. 35, fig. 42.
- John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), pp. 264 (ill.), 281.
- Edgar Munhall, Ingres and the Comtesse d’Haussonville (New York, 1985), pp. 120–21, fig. 104.
- Gerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme: with a Catalogue Raisonné (London, 1986), pp. 190–91, no. 38 (ill.).
- Stefan Germer, "Pictures at an Exhibition," Chicago History 16, no. 1 (1987), p. 4 (ill.).
- Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists, 1800–1900 (Chicago and New York, 1987), pp. 28 (ill.), 29, 118.
- Jack Perry Brown, "The Return of the Salon: Jean Léon Gérôme in the Art Institute," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 15, no. 2 (1989), p. 158, fig. 3.
- Daniel J. Strong in John Wilmerding, ed., Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) and the Heart of American Life, exh. cat. National Portrait Gallery, London, 1993, p. 61, fig. 4b, under no. 4.
- Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme: monographie révisée, catalogue raisonné mis à jour (Courbevoie, 2000), pp. 220–21, no. 38 (ill.).
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