Boules Player (La Joueuse De Boules)

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Object Details

Artist
Jean-Léon Gérôme, French, b. Vesoul, 1824–1904
Date
(1901-1902)
Medium
Gilt bronze
Dimensions
10 3/4 x 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. (27.3 x 13.3 x 8.3 cm)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Accession Number
72.129

Private Collection, France
Charles Jerdein, London to 1961
Landau-Alan Gallery, New York, 1961 to 12 June 1967
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 12 June 1967-6 March 1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
ALAN GALLERY, New York. "The Romantic Temperament," 4-30 December 1961, no. 17, ill.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.

ACKERMAN, GERALD M. "Gerome: The Academic Realist," The Academy, Art News Annual 33 (1967), ill. p. 106.
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), pp. 42, 694, ill. 140.
YOUNG, MAHONRI SHARP. "Letter from the U. S. A.: Hirshhorn on the Mall," Apollo 100/153 (November 1974), p. 420.
LYNES, RUSSELL. "Modern Art Arrives on the Mall in a New Museum and Sculpture Garden," Smithsonian 5/9 (December 1974), p. 41.
PAHL-MEHRINGER. Bedeutende Skulpturen (München: Pahl-Mehringer, 1978), ill. p. 41.

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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