Closed
Free
The Grief of the Pasha
Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)
Title
The Grief of the Pasha
Artist
Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)
Date
1885
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
36 1/2 × 29 in. (92.7 × 73.7 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Gift of Francis T. B. Martin
Object Number
1990.1
On View
On view
Provenance
Purchased from Boussod, Valadon & Cie by L. Crist Delmonico, New York, 1885.
Albert A. Munger (1845–1898), Chicago, by 1890–1898;
Bequeathed by Albert A. Munger to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1898–1935;
Purchased from the Art Institute of Chicago, through Julius H. Weitzner, New York and Dalzell Hatfield, New York and Los Angeles, by Charles W. Martin (1863–1944), Omaha, March 16, 1935–November 27, 1940;
His gift to his nephew, Francis T. B. Martin (1904–1995), Omaha, November 27, 1940–December 1, 1989;
His gift to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1989.
Exhibition History
Art Institute of Chicago, 1890–1901, lent by Alfred A. Munger.
An Eye for Detail: French Academic Paintings from the Martin Collection, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, February 24–April 8, 1990.
Worth a Thousand Words: 19th-Century Academic Paintings, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, January 20–March 20, 1994.
The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, June 15–September 12, 2010; Musée d’Orsay, Paris, October 19, 2010–January 23, 2011; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, February 15–May 22, 2011, no. 110.
Joslyn Treasures: Well Traveled and Rarely Seen, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, June 3–August 28, 2011.
Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022–January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.
Published References
Fanny Field Hering, Gérôme: The Life and Works of Jean-Léon Gérôme (New York: Cassell Publishing Co., 1892), 241.
Gustave Haller, Nos Grande Peintres (Paris: Goupil & Cie, 1899), 102.
The Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings & Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), no. 159, 174.
Catalogue of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), no. 159, 137.
The Art Institute of Chicago: A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), no. 01.431, 154
Gerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, with a Catalogue Raisonné (New York and London: Sotheby’s, 1986), no. 300, 125, 302–3, (repro.).
Graham W. J. Beal et. al., Fifty Favorites from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1994), 68–69, (repro.).
Laurence des Cars, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, and Edouard Papet, The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), exh. cat. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010), 182, 183, 204–205, 206, (repro.).
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 25, 200–1, (repro.).