JEAN-LOUIS-ANDRÉ-THÉODORE GÉRICAULT | "Femme agenouillée"

Claude Aubry, Paris;
James Lord, Paris;
Private Collection, New York,
sale, New York, Christie's, 9 June 1981, lot 173,
where acquired by the late owner

New York, Shepherd Gallery, The Non-Dissenters, David through Puvis de Chavannes, 1968, no. 33a

G. Bazin, Théodore Géricault: étude critique, documents et catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Paris 1987, pp. 41 and 168, no. 781, reproduced

Hinge mounted in two places along the upper edge to a modern card backing. There is evidence of some very minor surface dirt to the sheet and a small light brown stain to the centre of the right edge. The chalk medium remains in otherwise very fresh condition throughout with the image strong. Sold in a giltwood frame.
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It has previously been suggested that this characteristic figure study is preparatory for the kneeling woman at the lower left of Gericault's painting L'Inondation (Scène de déluge),¹ in the collection of the Musée du Louvre. ^1. See Géricault, exhib. cat., Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 1991-1992, pp. 369-370, no. 156, fig. 205, reproduced