Tiger and Cubs

Inscription: Signed (lower left): J.L. GEROME

Susan P. Colgate, Sharon, Conn. (by 1934–d. 1936)

New York. American Federation of Arts. "Romantic Art, 1750–1900," October 1965–October 1966, no. 12.

Queens, N.Y. Queens Museum. "The Artist's Menagerie: Five Millennia of Animals in Art," June 29–August 25, 1974, no. 73 (as "Tiger and Cubs").

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800–1920," February 4–May 6, 2007, no. 39.

Berlin. Neue Nationalgalerie. "Französische Meisterwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 1–October 7, 2007, unnumbered cat.

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L[ouise]. G. B[urroughs]. "Notes." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 32 (March 1937), p. 75.

Josephine L. Allen and Elizabeth E. Gardner. A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1954, p. 41.

Charles Sterling and Margaretta M. Salinger. French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, XIX Century. New York, 1966, p. 172, ill., call it "Tiger and Cubs" and suggest that "the soft handling and unemphatic drawing" date it to the 1880s.

Gerald M. Ackerman. The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, with a catalogue raisonné. London, 1986, pp. 120, 256–57, no. 331, ill. (color and black and white), dates it about 1884.

Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 436, ill.

Gerald M. Ackerman. Jean-Léon Gérôme: Monographie révisée, catalogue raisonné mis à jour. 2nd rev. ed. [1st ed., 1986]. Paris, 2000, pp. 124, 312–13, no. 331, ill. (color and black and white).

Kathryn Calley Galitz in The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800–1920. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. New York, 2007, pp. 62, 217, no. 39, ill. (color and black and white).

Kathryn Calley Galitz in Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800–1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2007, pp. 71, 254, no. 65, ill. (color and black and white).

This work may not be lent.