Jean-Léon Gérôme

Prayer in the Mosque



Jean-Léon Gérôme - Prayer in the Mosque



Jean-Léon Gérôme
Prayer in the Mosque
1871
88.9 x 74.9 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed upper right, on beam: J.L. GEROME
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Ackerman 200

Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 64


Provenance

with Goupil & Cie, Paris, 1874, purchased on 23 September, sold on 5 November to Knoedler
with M. Knoedler, New York, 1874, sold on 13 November to Wolfe
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, New York, 1874–died 1887

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 87.15.130

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