Artwork Details
21-7/8 x 18-3/8 in. 33-1/4 x 29-1/2 in. (framed)
Accession NumberDelavan Smith Fund
CopyrightEuropean Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette(Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris, France). {1} Sale at (Parke-Bernet, New York, New York) October 1955); {2} sold to David G. Carter; {3} sold by Carter to the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in November 1955 (55.220). ------- {1} As given in Gerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme with a catalogue raisonné, New York, 1986, no. 372 (illustration). {2} Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Dutch, Flemish and British Paintings of the XVII-XVIII Century, XIX Century Landscapes [from] various New York Private Collectors and other owners, 26 October 1955, lot 63, as property of a "Baltimore Private Collector." Ackerman suggests that the consignor was Marburg, possibly estate of Theodore Marburg [1862-1946]? {3} David G. Carter was an art collector and curator at the John Herron Art Institute.
Gérôme was schooled in the rigorous exactitude of the French academic tradition as well as Romanticism's taste for the exotic. He is renowned for his scenes of the Middle East, which he first visited in 1856. Most are idealized images heightening the sensuous qualities that made the Orient so appealing to the Romantic imagination.
The Guard is an imagined view of everyday life in a Middle Eastern town. The dozing animals and inviting, shady street contrast with the stern guard. This tension between the familiar and the menacing unknown gives Gérôme's art much of its seductive appeal.
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Chengdu Museum
September 28, 2020 - January 4, 2021
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Chengdu Museum
September 29, 2020 - January 4, 2021
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Hunan Provincial Museum
May 29, 2020 - September 13, 2020
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Hunan Provincial Museum
May 29, 2020 - September 13, 2020
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Guandong Museum
January 10, 2020 - May 17, 2020
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Guandong Museum
January 10, 2020 - May 17, 2020
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