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From Homer to the Harem. The art of Jean Lecomte du Nouy (1842-1923)

Diederen, R.M.H.

Publication date 2004

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1)) Self-portrait, 1887, oil on canvas, 58 x 48 cm, oval, Musée de Grenoble. Photo © Muséee de Grenoble. 2)2) Self-portrait at the Easel, 1888, oil on canvas, 99 x 50 cm, Vic-sur-Seille, Musée départementall Georges de Latour. 3)3) Nadar, Portrait ofLecomte du Nouy, photogravure, Dahesh Museum of Art. 4)) Self-portrait in the Orient, 1881, oil on canvas, 63.1 x 38.6 cm, Moulins, Musée Annee de Beaujeu. 5)) Photograph by Auguste Giraudon, Lecomte du Nouy and an unidentified artist in hiss studio, ca. 1886. 6)6) Unidentified photographer, Lecomte du Nouy in his studio showing The God and thethe Mortal Woman (cat. 230) on the rear wall. 7)) Unidentified photographer, Lecomte du Nouy in his studio, surrounded by his late paintings,, photo Roger-Viollet, Paris (7843-4). 8)) Collaborative work by various artists, Forty-three Portraits of Painters from Gleyre'sGleyre's Atelier, ca. 1856-68, oil on canvas, 117 x 145 cm, Paris, Musée du Petit Palais. . 9)) Charles Gleyre, The Evening (a.k.a. The Lost Illusions), 1843, oil on canvas, 156 xx 238 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre. 10)) Gustave Doré, Dante and Virgil in the Ninth Circle of Hell, 1861, oil on canvas, 3111 x 428 cm, Bourg-en-Bresse, Musée de 1'Ain. 11)) Ary Scheffer, Francesco da Rimini and Paolo in Hell, 1855, oil on canvas, 171 x 2399 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre [original 1835 version in London, The Wallace Collection]. . 12)) Eugene Delacroix, Dante and Virgil, 1822, oil on canvas, 189 x 246 cm, Paris, Muséee du Louvre. 13)) Francesca da Rimini and Paolo, 1863, oil on canvas, 185 x 148 cm, Sète, Musée Paull Valéry. 14)) Gleyre, The Dance of the Bacchantes, 1849, oil on canvas, 147.3 x 241.4 cm, Lausanne,, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts. 15)) Gustave Doré, Paolo and Francesca da Rimini, 1863, oil on canvas, 280.6 x 193.66 cm, Private collection. 16)) Cham, Cham au Salon de 1865, no. 1135, caption: "Francesca de Rimini n'ayant pluss a redouter de se casser le cou si elle tombait de cette hauteur, la chose se trouvantt déja faite." \l)Jacquesson\l)Jacquesson de la Chevreuse, 1864, oil on canvas, 40.6 x 32.7 cm, Toledo, Ohio, Mr.. and Mrs. Marcus. 18)) Lithograph by Charles Bargue, after a drawing by Jean Lecomte du Nouy, for the courscours de Dessin published in 3 volumes by Goupil & Cie between 1868-1872. Vol.. I, plate 47: Horse Head. Impression on gray paper, 47.1 x 61 cm, New York, Daheshh Museum of Art. 19)) Lithograph by Charles Bargue, after a drawing by Jean Lecomte du Nouy, for the courscours de Dessin published in 3 volumes by Goupil & Cie between 1868-1872. Vol.. I, plate 61: Theseus, Impression on gray paper, 47.1 x 61 cm, Bordeaux, Muséee Goupil. 20)) Lithograph by Charles Bargue, after a drawing by Jean Lecomte du Nouy, for the courscours de Dessin published in 3 volumes by Goupil & Cie between 1868-1872. Vol.. I, plate 63: The Belvedere Torso, front view. Impression on gray paper, 61 x 47.11 cm, Bordeaux, Musée Goupil. 2\)The2\)The Dancing Fellah Woman, exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1867, present location unknown. . 22)) Jean-Léon Géröme, TheAlmée, 1863, oil on panel, 50 x 81.3 cm, Dayton, Ohio, Daytonn Art Institute. 23)) Love that Goes, Love that Remains, 1869, oil on canvas, 130 x 207 cm, Boulogne- sur-Mer,, Chateau-Musée. 24)) Mrs. Eglantine Pujol, 1869, oil on canvas, 146 x 89.5 cm, Lille, Musée des Beaux-Arts. . 25)Hippolytee Flandrin, Madame Flandrin, Wife of the Artist, 1846, oil on canvas, 83 xx 66 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre. 26)) Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Madame Paul-Sigisbert Moitessier (standing), 1851,, oil on canvas, 146.7 x 100.3 cm, Washington, National Gallery of Art. 27)) Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Madame Paul-Sigisbert Moitessier (seated), 1856,, oil on canvas, 120 x 92.1 cm, London, National Gallery. 28)) Jean-Léon Géröme, Ms. Durand, 1853, oil on canvas, 127 x 87 cm, Art Gallery of Hamilton,, Canada. 29)) The Charmer, Salon 1870, oil on canvas, 89.9 x 116.3 cm, Reims, Musée des Beaux-Arts. . 30)) Emmanuel Frémiet, Pan and the Bears, 1867, marble, 82 x 182 x 67 cm, Paris, Muséee d'Orsay. 31)) Charles Gleyre, Minerva and the Graces, 1866, oil on canvas, 226.5 x 139 cm, Lausanne,, Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts. 32)) Jean-Léon Géröme, The Cock Fight, 1846, oil on canvas, 143 x 204 cm, Paris, Muséee d'Orsay. 33)33) A View of Paris in Snow, 1871, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 44 cm, Paris, Private collection. . 34)) The Square ofMalleval (Loire), 1870, oil on canvas, 23.2 x 31.2 cm, New York, Collectionn of Benjamin Doller. 35)) The Alps and the Dauphinè seen from Mount Pilat, ca. 1870, oil on canvas, 21 x 311 cm, New York, W.M. Brady & Co. 36)) The Departure of the Ambassadors (copy after Vittore Carpaccio), ca. 1873, oil onn canvas, 338 x 305 cm Paris, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. 37)) Oedipus 's Farewell to Jocasta, 1871, formerly Musée d'Arras, burnt 1915. 38)) Tracing of the composition for Oedipus's Farewell to Jocasta, 1871, pencil on tracingg paper, 27.8 x 30 cm. Paris, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. 39)) The Philosopher without Knowing It, 1873, oil on canvas, 36 x 18 inches, Clark University,, Worcester, MA, on loan to Worcester Art Museum. 40)) The Butchers of Venice, 1874, whereabouts unknown. 41)) Jean-Léon Géröme, The Prisoner, 1861, oil on canvas, 45 x 78 cm, Nantes, Muséee des Beaux-Arts. 42)) Eros, 1873, oil on canvas, 200 x 147 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours. 43)) Edouard Toudouze, Eros and Aphrodite, 1872, oil on canvas, 190 x 283 cm, Rennes,, Musée des Beaux Arts. 44)) Antiope- Jupiter, 1889, charcoal and pastel on paper, 55.8 x 46.3 cm, New York, Daheshh Museum of Art. 45)) Venice, The Quarter of San Giovanni i Paolo, 1873, oil on canvas, 16.8 x 18.5 cm,, Washington, DC, Private collection. 46)) View of Venice with an Apparition of a Female Figure in the Sky, not dated, oil on canvas,, 19 x 12 cm, Aurillac, Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie (inv. 82.13.290). 47)) Adolphe Crémieux, 1878, oil on canvas, 121 x 101 cm, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, on loann to the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme. 48)) Paul Delaroche, Count James-Alexandre de Pourtalès-Gorgier, 1846, oil on canvas,, 123 x 78 cm, Paris Musée du Louvre. 49)) My Family, 1890, oil on canvas, location unknown. 50)) The Iron that Provides Bread, Salon 1905, marble, Paris, Ministry of Agriculture

51)) For Liberty, Salon 1901, marble, location unknown. 52)) View of the Carpathian Mountains from the Royal Castle, Sinai'a, 1897, oil on canvas,, 18.5 x 30.5 cm, Aurillac, Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie (inv. 82.13.326). 53)) The Supper at Beaucaire, dated 1869-1894, oil on canvas, 76 x 110 cm, Chateaux dee Malmaison et de Bois-Préau. 54)) Dying for the Fatherland, 1892, oil on canvas, 102 x 180 cm, Angers, Musée des Beaux-Arts. . 54a)) Photograph of Dying for the Fatherland, taken before pentimenti in the background. . 55)) Study for Dying for the Fatherland, 1892, red chalk heightened with white on brownn wove paper, 49.8 x 32.4 cm, Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Ann D. Stoddard,, 1999.35. 56)) The Toilers of the Sea, Salon 1884, destroyed by fire, formerly Musée de Caen. 57)) The Orientals, Salon 1885, destroyed by fire, formerly Musée de Caen. 58)) Contemplations - At Present, Salon 1885, destroyed by fire, formerly Musée de Caen. . 59)) Contemplations - Past Times, 1885, destroyed by fire, formerly Musée de Caen. 60)) Paul Delaroche, The Hemicycle (detail), 1841, oil paint mixed with wax, 3.90 x 24.700 m, Paris, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. 61)) Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, The Apotheosis of Homer, 1827, oil on canvas, 3866 x 512 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre. 62)) Antoine Denis Chaudet, The Blind Belisarius Resting, 1791, plaster, 83 x 62 x 68 cm,, Paris, Musée du Louvre. 63)) Homer (the so-called Hellenistic blind type), Roman copy after a Greek original createdd ca. 150 BC, marble, 55 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre. 64)) William Bouguereau, Homer and his Guide, 1874, oil on canvas, 208.9 x 142.9 cm,, Milwaukee Art Museum. 65)) Charles Bargue, plate for the cours de Dessin, published in 3 volumes by Goupil && Cie between 1868-1872. Vol. I, plate 54: Homer. Lithograph, 47.1 x 61 cm, Bordeaux,, Musée Goupil. 66)) Studies for The Begging Homer, charcoal with white crayon highlights on paper, eachh 38 x 29 cm, Musée de Grenoble. 67)) The Gallic Coast Guard, 1888, oil on canvas, 76.5 x 126.5 cm, Paris, Musée d'Orsay. . 68)) After Henri Paul Motte, The Moloch Baal Devouring the Prisoners of War in Babylon,Babylon, Salon 1876, location unknown, possibly, Algiers, Musée des Beaux- Arts. . 69)) The Greek Sentinel, ca. 1865, engraving, 28 x 13.8 cmm (image), New York, Daheshh Museum of Art. 70)) The Invocation to Neptune, 1866, oil on panel, 39 x 31 cm, Lille, Musée des Beaux-Arts. . 71)) Charles Gleyre, Hercules and Omphale, 1862, oil on canvas, 145 x 111 cm, Neuchatel,, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire. 12)12) Head of an Old Woman wearing a Veil, not dated, oil on canvas, 25 x 17.5 cm, Paris,, Jane Roberts Fine Arts. 13)13) Head of a Bearded Man (grisaille), not dated, oil on canvas, 20.5 x 15.7 cm, Paris,, Private collection. 74)) Jacques Louis David, The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, 1789, oill on canvas, 323 x 422 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre. 15)Demosthenes15)Demosthenes Practicing his Declamation, 1870, oil on panel, 47.5 x 38 cm, Privatee collection. 76)) Eugene Delacroix, Demosthenes practicing his declamation, 1859, oil on paper, mountedd on wood, 49 x 59.5 cm, Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland. 77)) The Begging Homer, 1875, present location unknown, photogravure, Goupil & Cie.,, Bordeaux, Musée Goupil. 78)) Jean-Léon Géröme, The Iliad, 1858, oil on panel, 98.5 x 78 cm, Private collection. 79)) Jean-Léon Géröme, The Odyssey, 1858, oil on panel, 98.5 x 78 cm, Private collection. . 80)) The Begging Homer, 1881, oil on canvas, central part: 236 x 174 cm; side wings: 2366 x 104 cm, Musée de Grenoble. Photo © Musée de Grenoble. 81)) Léon Bonnat, Job, 1880, oil on canvas, 161 x 129 cm, Bayonne, Musée Bonnat. 82)) The Bearers of Bad Tidings, 1871, deposited by the French government to the Ministèree des Affaires Culturelles, Tunis, Present location unknown. 83)) Friedrich Hottenroth, Le Costume - Les Armes, Les Bijoux, La Céramique, Les Utensils,Utensils, Outils, Objets Mobiliers, etc. Chez les Peuples Anciens et Modernes... (Paris,, A. Guérinet, ca. 1890s), plate 8, Antiquité - Egypte-Ethiopie. Collection of Dr.. and Mrs. Ronald C. Childs, Great Falls, Virginia. 84)) Sid Treeby, Bearers of Evil Tidings, caricature in The Bystander (Nov. 19, 1913), p.. 408. 85)) Film Still from Salome, directed by Charles Bryant in 1922, starring Alia Nazimova. . 86)) The Sleep of the Chieftain, ca. 1873, location unknown (photogravure by Goupil && Cie). 87)) The Dream of a Eunuch, 1874, oil on panel, 39.3 x 65.4 cm, Cleveland Museum off Art. 88)) The Dream ofCosrou, Salon 1875, location unknown (photogravure by Goupil & Cie),, Bordeaux, Musée Goupil. 89),44 Pottery Merchant in Cairo, 1869, oil on panel, 30.5 x 22.2 cm, New York, Collectionn of Kenneth Jay Lane. 90)) Caricature by Cham for "Le Salon pour rire," in he Charivari (1875). 91)) Achille Zo, The Dream of a Believer, ca. 1870, oil on canvas, 104 x 158.5 cm, Bayonne,, Musée Bonnat. 92)) Unidentified Artist, A Man Experiencing a Vision while Smoking a Cigar, not dated,, oil on ivory, 11 x 9 cm, Private collection. 93)) Thomas Rowlandson, The Harem, after 1812, engraving, Private collection. 94)) An Oriental Dream, 1904, oil on canvas, 68.5 x 119 cm, Private collection. 95)) The Peri and the Poet, Cairo (sketch for, An Oriental Dream, oil on canvas, 12.4 xx 19.6 cm, Cleveland Museum of Art. 96)) View over the Roof Tops of an Oriental Town, not dated, oil on canvas, 21.5 x 32 cm,, Aurillac, Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie (inv. 82.13.327). 97)) Henri Regnault, The Execution without Judgment under the Moorish Kings of Granada,Granada, 1870, oil on canvas, 302 x 146 cm, Paris, Musée d'Orsay. 98)) A Guard Looking at Severed Heads, not dated, oil on canvas, 17.5 x 13 cm, Aurillac,, Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie (inv. 82.13.260). 99)) Alexandre Cabanel, Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Prisoners Awaiting the Death Penalty,Penalty, 1887, oil on canvas, 165 x 290 cm, Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schonee Kunsten. 100)) The Harem ofGesireh, Cairo, oil on canvas, 19.2 x 25.5 cm, Beauvais, Muséee départemental. 101)) The Gate of the Harem, Souvenir of Cairo, 1876, oil on canvas, 73.6 x 130 cm,, Paris, Collection Yves Saint Laurent - Pierre Berge. 102)) Ramses in His Harem, 1885, central canvas 113 x 144.5 cm; 1886, wings, each:: 126.5 x 75 cm, destroyed. 102a)) Central panel of Ramses in His Harem. 103)) Amenophis IV, 1884, black charcoal and white crayon on brown paper, 22 xx 16.5 cm, Aurillac, Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie (inv. 82.13.22). 104)) The Sadness of Pharaoh (La tristesse de Pharaon), Salon 1901, location unknown. . 105)) The White Slave, 1888, oil on canvas, 149 x 118 cm, Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts. . 106)) Fernand Cormon, Jealousy in the Seraglio, 1874, oil on canvas, 170 x 225 cm,, Besancon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie. 107)) Theodore Ralli, Drama in the Harem, Salon of 1908, oil on canvas, 72.4 x 50.22 cm, Private collection. 108)) Job and His Friends, Salon of 1867, location unknown, photogravure by Goupill & Cie. 109)) Compositional sketches for Job and His Friends, not dated, black crayon andd ink on paper, 15.5 x 20 cm, Aurillac, Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie (inv. 82.13.74). . 110)) Cham au Salon de 1867, no 904: "Nommé due par M. Léon Laya, Job n'ai pass le sou pour représenter. Ses amis refusent de lui en prêter, la contrainte par corpss étant abolie." 111)) Jean-Léon Géróme, Saint Jerome, 1874, location unknown. 112)) Jean-Léon Géróme, Phryné before the Aereopagus, 1861, oil on canvas, 80.55 x 128 cm, Hamburger Kunsthalle. 113)) Saint Vincent de Paul Bringing the Galley Slaves to the Faith, 1876, oil on canvas,, 465 x 285 cm, Paris, Church of the Trinity. 114)) Saint Vincent de Paul Helping the Inhabitants of Lorraine after the 1637 War,War, 1879, oil on canvas, 465 x 285 cm, Paris, Church of the Trinity. 115)) Léon Bonnat, Saint Vincent Taking the Place of a Galley Slave, 1865, oil onn canvas, 308 x 249 cm, Paris, Church of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs. 116)) Sketch for the two Altarpieces of Saint Vincent de Paul in the Church of thee Holy Trinity, Paris, ca. 1876, oil on canvas, 17 x 20 cm, Aurillac, Musée d'Art ett d'Archéologie (inv. 82.13. 288). . 117)) Sketch for Saint Vincent de Paul Bringing the Galley Slaves to the Faith, ca.. 1876, oil on canvas, 48 x 30 cm, Paris, Petit Palais. 118)) Sketch for Saint Vincent de Paul Helping the Inhabitants of Lorraine after thethe 1637 War, ca. 1876, oil on canvas, 48 x 30 cm, Paris, Petit Palais. 119)) Detail sketches for Saint Vincent de Paul Bringing the Galley Slaves to the Faith,Faith, ca. 1876, ca. 1876, oil on canvas, 32 x 26.5 cm, Paris, Private collection, courtesyy Blondeau-Breton-Pradère. 120)) Study for The Death of the Virgin, ca. 1895, red and white chalk on paper, 200 x 25.8 cm, New York, Dahesh Museum of Art. 121)) Judith, 1875, oil on panel, 32.4 x 20.3 cm, New York, Dahesh Museum of Art. . 122)) Jean-Léon Géróme, The Prayer (in Cairo), 1865, oil on panel, 49.8 x 81.2 cm,, Hamburger Kunsthalle. 123)) Possibly cat. 130, Prayer in a Mosque, not dated, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 35.66 cm, Bridgeman Art Library. 124)) At the Tomb of the Virgin, Jerusalem, 1871, oil on panel, 37.8 x 29.6 cm, Neww York, Dahesh Museum of Art. 125)) Christian Women at the Tomb of the Virgin, 1877, oil on canvas, 82.5 x 1288 cm, Minneapolis, Hennepin Avenue Methodist Church. 126)) Rabbis Commenting the Bible on Saturday (Souvenir of Morocco), 1882, oill on canvas, 76 x 132 cm, London, Guildhall Art Gallery. 127)) Saturday in the Jewish Quarter, Morocco, 1889, location unknown. 128)) The First Star (Morocco), 1894, oil on canvas, 76 x 127.5 cm, location unknown. . 129)) The Marabout Prophet Sidna-Aissa, 1883, oil on canvas, 76.5 x 127.7 cm, Privatee collection. 130)) Sarah Bernhardt and Georges Clairin Gliding over the People, not dated, oill on panel, 14 x 23 cm, Aurillac, Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie. 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