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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

81.3 x 62.2 cm.

Description:

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Markings:

signed '-Gustave. Moreau-' (lower right)

Exhibited:

(possibly) Paris, Galerie George Petit, Exposition Gustave Moreau, 1906, no. 53.Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Gustave Moreau, Between Epic and Dream, 29 September 1998-4 January 1999, p. 129, no. 55, illustrated, as The Death of Sappho.

Literature:

(Probably) A. Baillehache-Lamotte, Nouveau catalogue de l'uvre de Gustave Moreau remis  jour en 1915, Paris, p. 62, catalogue raisonn manuscript.P. L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, sa vie, son oeuvre, catalogue raisonn de l'oeuvre achev, Paris, 1976, p. 312, no. 140, illustrated.P. L. Mathieu, Complete Edition of the Finished Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings, Oxford, 1977, p. 319, no. 140, illustrated, as The Death of Sappho.P. L. Mathieu, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Gustave Moreau, Les Classiques de l'Art, Paris, 1991, p. 95, no. 164, illustrated.P. L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: The Assembler of Dreams 1826-1898, Paris, 2010, p. 89, illustrated, as Sappho.

Provenance:

The artist.Mr. Laniel, acquired directly from the above, January 1874.(possibly) mile Straus, (1844-1929), Paris.Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881-1957), Paris, by 1906.Alphonse Willems (1839-1912), Brussels. His sale; Galerie J. & A. Le Roy Frres, Paris, 12 May 1921, no. 37.Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 June 1995, lot 21, as The Death of Sappho.Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.