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Study for "Socrates Looking for Alcibiades in the House of Aspasia"

Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904) (Artist)
ca. 1860 (?)
graphite and pen and ink on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured, wove paper
(18th and 19th Centuries )

Inscription

"Jean-Léon Gérôme 1824-1904/succ. Aimé Morot" black ink stamp, verso, lower right; "Socrates et Alcibiades"; "Etude pour Diogenese"; "jalg" [artist's initials?] in graphite, verso

Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.

Aimé Morot, Paris, 1904, by inheritance; Paul Proute, S. A., Paris, 1976, by purchase; Henfield Foundation, New York, 1987; Walters Art Museum, January 1988, by gift.

Exhibitions

2024-2025 Reinstallation 2024: Art and Process. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
2005-2006 The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma.

Conservation

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1/1/2002 Treatment examined for exhibition; other
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France (Place of Origin)

Measurements

8 3/4 x 14 3/16 in. (22.3 x 36 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the Henfield Foundation, 1988

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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37.2634

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Baltimore, MD
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