Buffalo in Front of the Temples at Paestum, 1851
Oil on canvas, H. 0.65 m; W. 0.81 m
Signed and dated lower left: JL. GEROME. / 1851
Provenance: Étienne Moreau-Nélaton (1859-1927) Collection
Moreau-Nélaton sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, from 11 to 15 May 1900, no. 42, “Troupeau de buffles paissant dans la campagne de Paestum” (ill.)
France, private collection
EXHIBITIONS:
Paris, 1852 Salon, no. 535.
Paris, Cercle de l’Union Artistique, 1866.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Fanny Field Hering, Gérôme, his Life and Works, New York, 1892, p. 60.
Gilles Cugnier, Jean-Léon Gérôme 1824-1904. Peintre, sculpteur et graveur. Ses œuvres conservées dans les collections françaises publiques et privées, Vesoul, 1981, p. 18 and p. 21 (ill.).
Gerald M. Ackerman, La vie et l’œuvre de Jean-Léon Gérôme, Paris, 1986, p. 192, no. 40 (ill.).
Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme. Monographie révisée. Catalogue raisonné mis à jour, Paris, 2000, p. 220-221, no. 40 (ill.)
RELATED WORKS:
A large charcoal drawing squared for transfer, H. 465 mm; W. 600 mm, directly related to our painting was, according to Ackerman 2000, on the Paris art market in 1977.
A study for our painting: View of Paestum, oil on canvas, H. 0,59 m; W. 0,78 m, La Roche-sur-Yon, Musée Municipal de La Roche-sur-Yon (inv. 2020.7.1)
Wood engraving (published according to Ackerman 2000 in Le Magasin pittoresque, 1862)
View of Paestum, about 1847, sketch, oil on canvas, H. 0,19 m; W. 0,27 m, showing the same temple from a different angle (south east), without the temple of Hera on the left, formerly with David & Constance Yates, New York, 1995; private collection; the cartoon squared for transfer of this composition was sold by Sotheby’s, New York, on 16 November 1991; Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme. Monographie révisée. Catalogue raisonné mis à jour, Paris, 2000, p. 220-221, no. 40.2 (ill.);
Another version: View of Paestum, Ackerman, no. 25, exhibited at the 1849 Salon “ex catalogue”, according to Ackerman without a herd of buffalo, location unknown.
