Jean-Léon Gérôme

Masson Family Collection, France (by 1883)

Private Collection

Sotheby's, New York, 22 May 1991, lot 86 (consigned by the above)

With Kurt E. Schon, Ltd., New Orleans (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Paris, L'École des Beaux-Arts, Portraits du siècle, 1883, no. 281

Musée de Vesoul, Gérôme: Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1824-1904; peintre, sculpteur et graveur, 1981, no. 138

Portraits du siècle, exh. cat., Paris 1883, no. 281 (as Enfant)

Gérôme: Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1824-1904; peintre, sculpteur et graveur, exh. cat., Vesoul 1981, p. 120, no. 138, illustrated (as Madeleine Gérôme)

Gerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, Paris 1986, p. 254, no. 325 (referenced in “history”)

Painted circa 1883, this portrait is of Gérôme's youngest daughter, born in 1875, who married Pierre Masson, from the French publishing house family of the same name. The canvas remained in the Masson family and was exhibited at the "Portraits of the Century" in 1883 (no. 281).