signed and inscribed 'Equisse J L Gérôme/Aimé Morot' (lower right)

Provenance:
M. Poncelet, Paris
Private collection, France

Exhibited:
Brussels, Universal Exhibition, French Pavilion, 1897.
Paris, Galerie Tanagra, Exposition Gérôme, sculpteur et peintre de l'Art officiel, 1974, no. 25.

Literature:
G.M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Monographie et Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 2000, p. 372, no. 529.2.