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Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)

[Pierrot With Kneeling Man And Beseeching Woman]

c1857. Watercolour, signed lower right, 15.7 x 17.7cm. Old mount burn.

The Pierrot costume depicted resembles that used by actor Jean-Auguste Debureau, with loose white garments, whitened face and black skullcap but no frill about the neck. Debureau’s interpretation brought the Pierrot character to the attention of artists as early as the 1820s, appearing in the work of Romantics, Symbolists, and the Modernist era. Gérôme painted a Pierrot in an all-white costume with a ruffle in his two oil paintings Duel after the Masquerade and Duel after a Masked Ball, (1857, and 1859). Ref: Walters Art Museum,USA; Hermitage Museum; Musée Condé, Wiki.
Item #CL158-91

Price (AUD): $2,850.00  other currencies