LOT DETAILS

Materials:

brown ink and wash over pencil on paper

Measurements:

11.42 in. (29.00 cm.) (height) by 5.31 in. (13.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated _ Gustave Moreau_1860_ lower left

Exhibited:

Tokyo, Fujikawa Gallery,. Moreau-Bourdelle , 1971, no. 15, illustrated in the catalogue. Paris, Galerie J.-C. Gaubert,. Sources du fantastique , 1973, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature:

Pierre-Louis Mathieu,. Gustave Moreau: sa vie, son oeuvre: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre achevé , Fribourg, 1976, no. 46. Gustave Moreau Symboliste , exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zurich, 1986, p. 77, cited, p. 78, illustrated. Pierre-Louis Mathieu,. Gustave Moreau, Monographie catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre achevé , Paris, 1998, p. 288, no. 57, catalogued & illustrated (as. Sphinx

Provenance:

Gustave Duruflé (a gift from the artist. Duruflé (1834-1909), a friend of the artist, lived in the same neighbourhood as Moreau and was first introduced to him in 1870. He commissioned several replicas of Moreau's most famous works.). Georges Wildenstein, Paris. Confiscated from the above whilst stored at the Banque de France, Paris by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR Inv. No. W159);. Transferred via the Devisenschutzkommando (DSK) Hartmann to the Jeu de Paume, Paris, 30 Oct 1940. Transferred to the German Reich, 15 Jan 1943. Recovered from the 'Lager Peter' art repository and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 27 June 1945 (MCCP Inv. No. 1285/25). Repatriated to France, 10 Oct 1946 and subsequently restituted to Georges Wildenstein. Daniel Wildenstein, Paris. Strelow collection, Paris. Purchased by the previous owner from the above in 1974; thence by descent