LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pencil and ink heightened with white and gold on paper

Measurements:

10.98 in. (27.90 cm.) (height) by 7.99 in. (20.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed Gustave Moreau (lower right)

Exhibited:

Tokyo, Central Art Gallery; Osaka, Fujikawa Gallery; and Kobe, Fujikawa Gallery, . Exhibition Honoring Fujikawa Gallery's 35th Anniversary: Gustave Moreau , October 26-December 12, 1974, no. 14

Literature:

Pierre-Louis Mathieu, . Gustave Moreau: Complete Edition of the Finished Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings , Oxford, 1977, pp. 152, 343, no. 268, illustrated p. 344. Pierre-Louis Mathieu, . Gustave Moreau. Monographie et nouveau catalogue de l'oeuvre achevé , Paris, 1998, p. 370, no. 299, illustrated

Provenance:

Duruflé Collection. Wildenstein & Co., New York. Acquired from the above in 1980