JEAN-LOUIS-ANDRÉ-THÉODORE GERICAULT (ROUEN 1791-1824 PARIS)

Lot 62
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Lot 62 | JEAN-LOUIS-ANDRÉ-THÉODORE GERICAULT (ROUEN 1791-1824 PARIS)
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£ 20 000 – 30 000
JEAN-LOUIS-ANDRÉ-THÉODORE GERICAULT (ROUEN 1791-1824 PARIS)

A nude man mourning the death of another (recto); and figure studies (verso)

pen and brown ink (recto); graphite on light brown paper (verso)

18.6 x 23.9 cm (7 3⁄8 x 9 1⁄2 in.)





Provenance

Possibly Alexandre-Marie Colin (1798-1875), Paris.

Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803-1902), London.

with Christopher Powney, London (Early drawings, 1968, no. 33).

with Claude Aubry, Paris.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 26 January 2011, lot 681.

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 24 January 2017, lot 110.



Literature

L. Eitner, Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa, London, 1972, p.157, no. 44, ill. (recto).

G. Bazin, Théodore Géricault. Étude critique, documents et catalogue raisonné, II, L’Œuvre. Période de formation, Paris, 1987, no. 169, ill. (verso); VI, Génie et folie. Le Radeau de la Méduse et les monomanes, Paris, 1994, no. 2003, ill. (recto).



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