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Moorish Bath
1870
Jean-Léon Gérôme, French, 1824–1904
50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Upper right, on top of bench: J.L. GEROMEClassification: Paintings
Type, sub-type: Genre - Interior; NudeOn view in the: Lorna and Robert Rosenberg Gallery (European Art 1830–1920) Museum of Fine Arts, BostonGift of Robert Jordan from the collection of Eben D. Jordan, 1924
Accession number: 24.217Provenance/Ownership History: Please note: The history of ownership is not definitive or comprehensive, as it is under constant review and revision by MFA curators and researchers.
1870, gift of the artist to H. J. Turner; April 4, 1903, sold by Turner at Christie's, London, lot 138, and bought by Arthur Tooth and Sons, London, Paris, and New York [see note 1]; 1903, sold by Tooth and Sons to J. D. Milburn, Esquire [see note 2]. Eben D. Jordan, Boston, MA; by 1924, by descent to Robert Jordan, Boston, MA; 1924, gift of Robert Jordan to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 17, 1924)
NOTES:
[1] presumably this is Tooth London trans. no. 2936, Gérôme, "Bain Mauve," 20 x 16
[2] the name in the stock inventory for 1903 is illegible, name cited in Picture Sales Vol. II, p. 37This object is included in the following Selected Tour(s):
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