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Lot 175
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* Théodore Géricault Rouen 1791 - 1824 Paris

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Description

  • Théodore Géricault
  • a nude woman, seen in profile to the left, seated on rocks
  • pen and brown ink, over traces of red chalk, on brown paper;
    bears attribution, verso: P.P. Prud'hon

Catalogue Note

This elegant figure bears some resemblance to the figure of Andromeda in Géricault's Perseus and Andromeda (Paris, Private Collection; see J. Thuillier, L'Opera Completa di Géricault, Milan 1978, pp.137-8, cat. no. A. 82).