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Artworks
JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME
Portrait of a Woman (Aiouch), 1855Pencil on paper26.6 x 16.2 cm
10 1⁄2 x 6 1⁄4 in.Inscribed lower left: "D. hedjas"
Inscribed lower right in Arabic: " عيوش Aiouch"
Inscribed lower right: "Aiouch / Louxor 1855 / dessin de J.L. Gerome / Aimé Morot"Copyright The ArtistFurther images
Provenance
Possibly Aimé Morot (1850-1913).Literature
This work was engraved under the name Tête de negresse de Hedjar: see M. Ackerman, Vie et oeuvre de Jean-Léon Gérôme, Catalog Raisonné, Courbevoie 2000, p. 379, under number 2.