Live Auction 20906The Collection of Pierre Durand
JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME (VESOUL 1824-1904 PARIS)
Lot 112

JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME (VESOUL 1824-1904 PARIS)

Two studies of a standing boy holding his hands up in prayer

Closed27 January 2022

Price Realised

USD 1,625

Considering selling a similar item?

Discover its value with a complimentary estimate from our specialists.

More Information

Conditions of Sale
How to sell

JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME (VESOUL 1824-1904 PARIS)
Two studies of a standing boy holding his hands up in prayer
inscribed and signed by the artist’s son-in-law ‘dessins de J. L. Gerôme/ Aimé Morot’
graphite on wove paper
14 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄8 in. (35.9 x 22.9 cm)

Aimé-Nicolas Morot (1850-1913), Paris.
with Galerie Irène Huisse, Rouen.
François Delestre, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 27 February 1982, lot 39.

Specialist note

Figures of boys in a pose very similar to the one depicted here appear in several of Gérôme’s paintings. Particularly close to this study are boys praying with their arms raised in the second version of Prayer-time at the Mosque of Qani-Bay from 1895 (whereabouts unknown; see G.M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Paris, 2000, no. 421, ill. p. 165). This sheet of studies bears the signature and authentication of Aimé-Nicolas Morot, the artist's son-in-law.