Provenance
- Aimé Morot (1850-1913), Gérôme's son-in-law
- Paris, Galerie Elstir (dealer)
- 1997, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
Bibliography
- 1906 Moreau-Vauthier
C. Moreau-Vauthier, Gérôme, peintre et sculpteur, Paris 1906 - 1981 Vesoul
J.-L. Gérôme, exh.cat., Vesoul, 1981 - 1986 Ackerman
G. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, (New York, 1986) - 1994 Türr
K. Türr, Farbe und Naturalismus in der Skulptur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts: Sculpturae Vitam Insufflat Pictura, Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1994 - 1995 Collins
J. Collins, "The Tinted Venus and Beyond: Painted Stone Sculpture from 1850-1930," in Heuman, Jackie, ed., From Marble to Chocolate. The Conservation of Modern Sculpture, London: Archetype Publications, 1995, pp. 9-14 - 1996 Colour of Sculpture
The Colour of Sculpture 1840-1910, exh.cat., Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum (26 July-17 November 1996); Leeds: Henry Moore Institute (13 December 1996 - 6 April 1997) - 2000 Darr and Albainy
A. Darr & T. Albainy, "Acquisitions of European sculpture and decorative arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1988 - 1999," The Burlington Magazine, 142 (June 2000), p. 412, pl. XXIII (color ill) - 2008 Sotheby's
Sotheby's Paris, "Tableaux et Dessins du XIX Siècle," June 25, 2008, addendum concerning lot 38, p. 16 (color ill)