Gérôme's Corinthia

Grab your chequebooks, folks. Sotheby's Paris auction of 19th Century Paintings & Drawings on 25 June features this gem sculpted by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904): the original plaster model for Corinthia. Gérôme died before he could complete the marble version, which his assistant Emile Décorchement completed and showed at the Salon of 1904. Estimated value in Euro thingies? A snip at 200,000 to 300,000.