FRENCH VICTIMES DU SPHINX, Gustave Moreau

1826 - 1898

Gustave Moreau

signed and dated _Gustave Moreau_1860_ lower left
brown ink and wash over pencil on paper
29 by 13.5cm., 11½ by 5½in.

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