Oil on canvas. 68 X 198 cm. Inv. No 3543 Signed lower left: J. L. Gerome
Auctioned with the Wilson Collection in the Georges Petit Gallery in Paris in 1881 was a small Gerome picture of the same name (lot 162, 20 X 32 cm), which probably represents a sketch for the Pushkin Museum piece. Another similarly entitled canvas in the Pereire Collection was listed in the catalogue of the 1891 sale in Paris.
Provenance: The Chaman Collection, Paris; until 1918 The Hermitage, St Petersburg — Petrograd; 1918—38 The Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; 1938—48 The Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow; since 1948 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Exhibition: 1960 Moscow, Cat., pp. 5, 19 Bibliography: P.Mantz, "Salon de 1859", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 2, 1859, pp. 196—198
138 THE KING CANDAULES
139 AFTER THE MASQUERADE
Oil on canvas. 32 X 41 cm. Inv. No 968 Provenance: 1881 Sale of the Wilson Collection, Paris; until 1892 The S. Tretyakov Collection, Moscow; 1892—1925 The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; since 1925 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Exhibition: 1960 Moscow, Cat., p. 23 Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 77; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 105; Опись галереи Третьяковых 1894, No 58; Кат. галереи Третьяковых 1911, No 35; Кат. галереи Третьяковых 1917, No 3902; Reau 1929, No 474