Lot 8
  • 8

Théodore Géricault

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Théodore Géricault
  • Romains combattant et études pour la course de chevaux libres
  • pen and sepia ink on paper
  • 14.5 by 12cm., 5¾ by 4¾in.
  • 14.6 x 11.9 cm

Provenance

Eudoxe Marcille (1814-1890)
Sale: M. Faivre Duffer, Paris, 27 January 1870, lot 55 or 56          
Acquired by the late owner in 1990

Exhibited

New York, Jan Krugier Gallery; Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Victor Hugo and The Romantic Vision, Drawings and Watercolors, 1990-91, no. 56, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault, Etude critique, documents et catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1990, vol. IV, pp. 75-76, discussed and a detail illustrated; p. 225, no. 1419, catalogued & illustrated
Wheelock Whitney, Gericault in Italy, London, 1997, pp. 147-49, discussed; p. 148, fig. 186, illustrated
Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, exh. cat., Berlin, 1999, p. 402, illustrated
The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, exh. cat., Venice, 1999, p. 401, illustrated

Condition

The sheet is not laid down, but is attached intermittently to the mount along the edges. There are some very light fine creases in the lower right corner of the sheet, apart from which the work is in good condition. Presented framed and glazed.
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Catalogue Note

Executed circa 1817