Mar 06, 2025 - Sale 2696

Sale 2696 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME (1824 - 1904)
Study for "Promenade de la Cour dans les jardins de Versailles".

Pencil on two joined sheets of wove paper, circa 1895. 295x325 mm; 11⅝x12⅞ inches.

Provenance
Aime Morot, the artist's student and son-in-law.
Madame Huisse.
Jean-Pierre Selz, Paris.
Lynven Inc., New York.
Private collection, New York.
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Occasionally Jean-Léon Gérôme was inspired by and depicted seventeenth century French historical subjects in his art. His masterpiece for which the present drawing is a study, Promenade de la Cour dans les jardins de Versailles, or Louis XIV and His Court in the Park of Versailles in the collection of the Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, came from Gérôme's experience of watching the sun set at Versailles. The painting he conceived is widely acknowledged as the artist's last great painting, and he executed several studies and preparatory drawings for it.