L’épave: A Jean-Léon Gérôme Painting Rediscovered in a Previously Unknown Collection
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This Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) painting found in an antique dealer’s collection recalls that, despite his academic reputation, he was a bold artist with no peer when it came to creating powerful images. Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), L’Épave (The Shipwreck), signed painting, 70.4 x 106.3 cm/27.71 x 41.85 in.Estimate: €80,000/120,000 Turned against the hearth at the foot of the fireplace, Jean-Léon Gérôme’s painting found in the apartment of a dealer who plied his trade at the Louvre des Antiquaires in the 1970s and 1980s went unnoticed. L’épave (The Shipwreck), which is smaller than the master’s great history pictures (70.4 x 106.3 cm/27.71 x 41.85 in), did not stand out amid
