Jean-Léon Gérôme

Pygmalion and Galatea



Jean-Léon Gérôme - Pygmalion and Galatea



Jean-Léon Gérôme
Pygmalion and Galatea
c. 1890
88.9 x 68.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Louis C. Raegner


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Ackerman 385

Literature
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 66


Provenance

with Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris, 1892, purchased from the artist on March 22, sold on April 7, to Yerkes
Charles Tyson Yerkes, Chicago (1892–d.1905)
his estate 1905–10
his estate sale, Mendelssohn Hall, New York, April 5–8, 1910, no. 21, sold to Dugro
Justice P.H. Dugro, New York (from 1910)
Louis C. Raegner, New York (until 1927)

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 27.200

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