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Provenance

Antony Roux (1833–1913), Marseille; Comtesse Pierre-Louis de Roederer (1863–1922), née Louise de Saint-Alary , Paris; Thence by descent to her daughter and son-in-law, Comtesse de Rochefort (1893–1988), née Régine Roederer and Comte Gérard Moulins de Rochefort (1886–1965), Paris; Georges Wildenstein (1892–1963), Paris; Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, ERR no. W156; Central Collecting Point, Munich, no. 212/34; Repatriated to France and restituted to the Wildenstein Collection, Paris; Daniel Wildenstein (1917–2001), Paris. Private collection, Japan, purchased from the above, c . 1971.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition Gustave Moreau , Paris 1906, no. 113; Tokyo, Tokyo Central Museum of Art; Osaka, Fujikawa Gallery; Fukuoka, Fujikawa Gallery, Gustave Moreau: World Treasures , 26 October – 22 December 1971, no. 5; Yamanashi, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art; Kamakura, Museum of Modern Art; Mie, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Gustave Moreau et le Symbolisme , Yamanashi, 9 September – 14 October 1984, Kamakura, 27 October – 2 December 1984, Mie, 4 January – 11 February 1985, no. 57; Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich , Gustave Moreau Symboliste , 14 March – 25 May 1986, no. 39; Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, Gustave Moreau , Tokyo, 21 March – 14 May 1995; Kyoto, 23 May – 9 July 1995, no. 78.

Literature

Exposition Gustave Moreau, exh. cat., Paris 1906, p. 40, no. 113; Gustave Moreau: World Treasures , exh. cat., Tokyo 1971, n.p., no. 5, reproduced in colour (erroneously catalogued as Orpheus ); P.-L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Sa vie, son œuvre, catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre achevé , Freiburg 1976, pp. 100 and 306, no. 104, reproduced pp. 100 and 306; P.-L. Mathieu , Gustave Moreau, Complete edition of the finished paintings, watercolours and drawings , London 1977, p. 312, no. 104, reproduced; P.-L. Mathieu, in Gustave Moreau et le Symbolisme, G. Lacambre (ed.), exh. cat., Tokyo 1984, pp. 91–92, no. 57, reproduced in colour; G. Lacambre, in Gustave Moreau Symboliste , M. Karabelnik-Matta et al. (eds), exh. cat., Zürich 1986, p. 150, no. 39, reproduced; P.-L. Mathieu, Tout l'œuvre peint de Gustave Moreau, Paris 1991, p. 90, no. 128, reproduced; C. Kitazaki, in Gustave Moreau , C. Kitazaki et al . (eds), exh. cat, Kyoto 1995, pp. 208–9, no. 78, reproduced; P.-L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Monographie et nouveau catalogue de l'œuvre achevé , Paris 1998, p. 309, no. 118, reproduced.

Catalog summary

Property from an Important Asian Collection Gustave Moreau Paris 1826–1898 Sappho falling into the Abyss signed with monogram, signed and dated lower left: - Gustave Moreau - 1867 - oil on panel unframed: 20.2 x 14.3 cm.; 8 x 5⅝ in. framed: 41.2 x 35.3 cm.; 16¼ x 13⅞ in. Provenance Antony Roux (1833–1913), Marseille; Comtesse Pierre-Louis de Roederer (1863–1922), née Louise de Saint-Alary , Paris; Thence by descent to her daughter and son-in-law, Comtesse de Rochefort (1893–1988), née Régine Roederer and Comte Gérard Moulins de Rochefort (1886–1965), Paris; Georges Wildenstein (1892–1963), Paris; Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, ERR no. W156; Central Collecting Point, Munich, no. 212/34; Repatriated to France and restituted to the Wildenstein Collection, Paris; Daniel Wildenstein (1917–2001), Paris. Private collection, Japan, purchased from the above, c . 1971. Exhibited Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition Gustave Moreau , Paris 1906, no. 113; Tokyo, Tokyo Central Museum of Art; Osaka, Fujikawa Gallery; Fukuoka, Fujikawa Gallery, Gustave Moreau: World Treasures , 26 October – 22 December 1971, no. 5; Yamanashi, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art; Kamakura, Museum of Modern Art; Mie, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Gustave Moreau et le Symbolisme , Yamanashi, 9 September – 14 October 1984, Kamakura, 27 October – 2 December 1984, Mie, 4 January – 11 February 1985, no. 57; Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich , Gustave Moreau Symboliste , 14 March – 25 May 1986, no. 39; Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, Gustave Moreau , Tokyo, 21 March – 14 May 1995; Kyoto, 23 May – 9 July 1995, no. 78. Literature Exposition Gustave Moreau, exh. cat., Paris 1906, p. 40, no. 113; Gustave Moreau: World Treasures , exh. cat., Tokyo 1971, n.p., no. 5, reproduced in colour (erroneously catalogued as Orpheus ); P.-L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Sa vie, son œuvre, catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre achevé , Freiburg 1976, pp. 100 and 306, no. 104, reproduced pp. 100 and 306; P.-L. Mathieu , Gustave Moreau, Complete edition of the finished paintings, watercolours and drawings , London 1977, p. 312, no. 104, reproduced; P.-L. Mathieu, in Gustave Moreau et le Symbolisme, G. Lacambre (ed.), exh. cat., Tokyo 1984, pp. 91–92, no. 57, reproduced in colour; G. Lacambre, in Gustave Moreau Symboliste , M. Karabelnik-Matta et al. (eds), exh. cat., Zürich 1986, p. 150, no. 39, reproduced; P.-L. Mathieu, Tout l'œuvre peint de Gustave Moreau, Paris 1991, p. 90, no. 128, reproduced; C. Kitazaki, in Gustave Moreau , C. Kitazaki et al . (eds), exh. cat, Kyoto 1995, pp. 208–9, no. 78, reproduced; P.-L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Monographie et nouveau catalogue de l'œuvre achevé , Paris 1998, p. 309, no. 118, reproduced.