Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Ackerman 355

Provenance

Eugène Lyon, Brussels
sale Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 7 May 1903, nr. 16
Antonin Mercié
Yvonne Coty, Paris
sale Sotheby's, New York, 28 February 1990, nr. 29
private collection
sale Sotheby's, London, 14 June 2005, nr. 104
purchased at the above sale
Sale Sotheby's, London, 6 June 2017, nr. 17

Other works by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Prayer in the Mosque of Quat Bey, Cairo
1895

Man Praying in a Mosque

Entry of Christ into Jerusalem
1897

Arnauts of Cairo at the Gate of Babel-Nasr
1861

The Sultan's Tomb