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Provenance: with Isidore Montaignac, Galerie d'art, Paris, 1886.
with Louis Mante, Marseille, and thence by descent to his daughter Mme. Jean Rostand, Ville d'Avray.
Anonymous sale; Drouot, Paris, 10 December 1980, lot 51.
Sir Paul Getty, K.B.E., thence by descent to the present owners.

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Exhibited: Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition Gustave Moreau au profit des oeuvres du travail et des pauvres honteux (Preface by R. de Montesquiou), 1906, no. 78 (collection Louis Mante).
Kofu, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Gustave Moreau et le Symbolisme, 1984-5, no. 102; this exhibition later travelled to Kamakura, Museum of Modern Art, and Tsu, Mie Prefectural Art Museum.
Tokyo, Gallery Yayoi.

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Literature: A. Renan, Gustave Moreau, Paris, 1900, p. 34.
P.-L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: Complete edition of the finished paintings, watercolours and drawings, Oxford, 1977, p. 369, no. 413 (illustrated).
P.-L. Mathieu, Le rêve chez Gustave Moreau, Le Prix de l'Art, Paris, 1981, p. 150 (illustrated).
G. Moreau, L'assembleur de rêves: écrits complets de Gustave Moreau, Fontispiece, Fata Morgana, 1984, pp. 116-7.
P.-L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Paris, 1994, p. 204.
P.-L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: Monographie et nouveau catalogue de l'oeuvre achevé, Paris, 1998, p. 417, no. 450 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue; Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), Paris, Chicago, New York, 1998-99, p. 164.

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Notes: Gustave Moreau (French, 1826-1898)
Sainte Cécile et les anges de la musique
signed 'Gustave Moreau' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25½ x 21¼ in. (64.8 x 54cm)
Painted circa 1880-85.