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Provenance

Millard F. Tompkins, Esq.;[1] (sale, American Art Gallery, New York, 5 March 1915, no. 27); Ruppert. private collection, Maryland; (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 October 1956, no. 52). Woodford; P. Tretyakov. Sordoni collection, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.[2] (Mathaf Gallery, London), 1978; sold 1982 to private collection; purchased 14 June 2013 through (Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich) by NGA. [1] The provenance given here is based on Gerald M. Ackerman, _The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, with a catalogue raisonné_, London, 1986: 228, no. 205. [2] This is probably the collection of Andrew J. Sordoni [d. 1963], Pennsylvania state senator and founder of the Sordoni Construction Company.

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Gérôme, Jean-Léon

c. 1868/1870

Accession Number

2013.62.1

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 38 × 56 cm (14 15/16 × 22 1/16 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Chester Dale Fund