Portrait of a Woman

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1851

Jean Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)

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Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Jean Léon Gérôme
Title: Portrait of a Woman
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1851
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed center right: J. L. Gerome 1851
Dimensions: 92.6 × 73.7 cm (36 1/2 × 29 in.); Framed: 116.9 × 99.1 × 10.1 cm (46 × 39 × 4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Silvain and Arma Wyler Foundation
Reference Number: 1964.338
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Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1964–65 (Chicago, 1965), p. 29.
Robert Rosenblum, Ingres (New York, 1967), p. 35, fig. 42.
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), pp. 264 (ill.), 281.
Edgar Munhall, Ingres and the Comtesse d’Haussonville (New York, 1985), pp. 120–21, fig. 104.
Gerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme: with a Catalogue Raisonné (London, 1986), pp. 190–91, no. 38 (ill.).
Stefan Germer, “Pictures at an Exhibition,” Chicago History 16, no. 1 (1987), p. 4 (ill.).
Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists, 1800–1900 (Chicago and New York, 1987), pp. 28 (ill.), 29, 118.
Jack Perry Brown, “The Return of the Salon: Jean Léon Gérôme in the Art Institute,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 15, no. 2 (1989), p. 158, fig. 3.
Daniel J. Strong in John Wilmerding, ed., Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) and the Heart of American Life, exh. cat. National Portrait Gallery, London, 1993, p. 61, fig. 4b, under no. 4.
Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme: monographie révisée, catalogue raisonné mis à jour (Courbevoie, 2000), pp. 220–21, no. 38 (ill.).

Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, Jean-Leon Gérôme (1824-1904): Paintings and Drawings, November 10–December 31, 1972, cat. 2; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, January 26–March 11, 1973; Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, April 6–May 20, 1973..
Gifu, Japan, Museum of Fine Arts, Paris around 1882, November 3–December 19, 1982, cat. 21; Japan, Kamakura, January 20–February 20, 1983.
Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Jean-Léon Gérôme, June 15-September 12, 2010; Paris, Musée d’Orsay, October 18, 2010-January 23, 2011; Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, March 1-May 22, 2011.

Sold Hotel Drouot, Paris, by 1964 as anonymous, bought by Giancarlo Baroni, Paris [oral communication, Giancarlo Baroni and Jean Luc Baroni, March 15, 2003]; sold by Giancarlo Baroni to Hans Calmann, London by 1964 [according to Calmann’s draft memoirs as reported by Jon Whitely, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, letter of February 20, 2003, in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1964.

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