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拍品 682
  • 682

Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault

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30,000 - 40,000 USD
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描述

  • Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault
  • Recto: two studies for cupid on a dolphin and a separate study of his head;Verso: sketches for the Rape of the Sabines, Venus and Cupid and other mythological subjects

  • Pen and brown ink (recto and verso) over black chalk (recto)

來源

With Christopher Powney, London (Early drawings, 1968, no. 34);
Claude Aubry;
Private Collection

出版

L. Eitner, Géricault. His Lilfe and Work, London 1983, pp.104-5, fig 91 (verso);
G. Bazin, Théodore Géricault, Etude Critique, Documents et Catalogue raisonné, Tome II: Période de Formation, Paris 1987, pp. 317, 492-3, no. 492, reproduced (verso); Tome IV: Le Voyage en Italie, Paris 1990, pp. 27, 166, no. 1273, reproduced (recto)

拍品資料及來源

Neither the elaborate study on the recto of this sheet nor the various more rapid sketches on the verso can be related to any finished work by the artist, but they are characteristic of Géricault's great interest in mythological subejcts, and in the case of the verso in scenes of abduction, themes that particularly preoccupied him circa 1816-17, during his period in Rome.