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Le lion amoureux (The Lion in Love) by 
																	Gustave Moreau

Gustave Moreau

( French, 1826 - 1898 )

Le lion amoureux (The Lion in Love)

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Materials:

watercolour and gouache on paper

Size Notes:

15 x 9.50 in. (38 x 24.3 cm.)

Description:

or LOG IN

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Centenaire de Gustave Moreau, April 1926, no. 17.

Literature:

G. Rouault, Gustave Moreau in LArt es les Artistes, No. 66, April 1926, p. 228, illustrated. M. Rheims, LArt 1900, Paris, 1965, p. 129, as Der Zauberwald, illustrated. E. Bnzit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Paris, 1976, Vol. 7, p. 525. Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau : Complete edition of the finished paintings, watercolours and drawings, Oxford, 1977, p. 344, No. 269, illustrated. P.L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Complete edition of the finished paintings, watercolours and drawings, Oxford, 1998, p. 371, No. 300, illustrated. P.L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, L'assembleur de rves, Paris, 1998, p. 122-123, illustrated.

Provenance:

Cahen dAnvers, Paris. Willy Blumenthal sale; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 29 November 1935, lot 26. Maurice Rheims, Paris, by 1965. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, October 17, 1991, Lot 30. Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.

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