GUSTAVE MOREAU (FRENCH, 1826-1898)
GUSTAVE MOREAU (FRENCH, 1826-1898)
Le lion amoureux (The Lion in Love)
signed ‘-Gustave Moreau-’ (lower left)
watercolour and gouache on paper
15 x 9 ½ in. (38 x 24.3 cm.)
Executed circa 1881.
Provenance
Cahen d’Anvers, 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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GUSTAVE MOREAU (FRENCH, 1826-1898)
Le lion amoureux (The Lion in Love)
signed ‘-Gustave Moreau-’ (lower left)
watercolour and gouache on paper
15 x 9 ½ in. (38 x 24.3 cm.)
Executed circa 1881.
Provenance
Cahen d’Anvers, 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.