LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Gouache on paper heightened with gold

Measurements:

14.76 in. (37.50 cm.) (height) by 8.78 in. (22.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed and dedicated lower right à Charles Gavard affectueux / souvenir Gustave Moreau ; titled lower left David

Exhibited:

Gustave Moreau - Exposition de son œuvre au profit des oeuvres du Travail et des pauvres honteux , Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1906 n° 61

Literature:

Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau , Paris, 1976, n°372 (not illustrated) ; . Gustave Moreau, L'Assembleur de rêves - Ecrits complets de Gustave Moreau , Fontfroide, éd. 1984, p. 74-77 ;. Pierre-Louis Mathieu,. Gustave Moreau, Paris, 1998, n° 410 (not illustrated

Provenance:

Executed by Gustave Moreau for Charles Gavard (1794-1871) ;. Collection of the above's daughter, musician and piano teacher who offered it to her student, Mrs Piedoüe d'Heritot, nee Fouchy ;. Thence by descent to the present owners