Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Gericault (Rouen 1791-1824 Paris) - photo 1

Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Gericault (Rouen 1791-1824 Paris)

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06.07.2021 10:00UTC +01:00
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ID 587669
Lot 58 | Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Gericault (Rouen 1791-1824 Paris)
Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Gericault (Rouen 1791-1824 Paris)

The plastermaker’s horse (‘Le cheval du plâtrier’)

signed and dated ‘Gericault 1821’ (lower left)

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash

10 x 12 ¾ in. (25.4 x 31.4 cm)







Provenance

William Beckford, London (1760-1844) (according to the 1967 catalogue); to his daughter

Susan Euphemia Beckford, wife of Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, Brodick Castle, Isle of Arran; by descent to

Lady Jean Graham Sibyl Violet fforde, Edinburgh (1920-2017).

With Ewan Phillips Gallery; Gericault to Ernst, London, 1967, no. 5, ill.

With Paul Brame, Paris (according to Eitner, 1983).





Literature

P. Grunchec, 'L'inventaire posthume de Théodore Gericault (1791-1824)', Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français, 1976-1978, p. 410, under no. 87, p. 420, n. 137.

P. Grunchec, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Gericault, Paris, 1978, p. 124, under no. 244; new edition, 1991, p. 124, under no. 244.

F. Bergot, Tout l'oeuvre gravé et pièces en rapport, exhib. cat., Rouen, musée des beaux-arts, 1981-1982, p. 92, under no. 80.

L. Eitner, Gericault, His Life and Work, London, 1983, p. 357, n. 76 (as copy after).

G. Bazin, Théodore Gericault. Etude critique, documents et catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1997, VII, pp. 37-38, 173, no. 2414, ill.

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