Study of a man in profile

Details

Théodore Géricault (French, 1791-1824)
Study of a man in profile
oil on canvas
13¾ x 14¼ in. (35 x 36.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1812.

Provenance

Walter Pach, New York, thence by descent.

Literature

'America sees Géricault' in Art Digest, 15 November 1936, p. 6.
W. Pach, 'Géricault in America' in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, April 1945, p. 235, fig. 14.
M. Wegener, 'A Study by Géricault' in The Brooklyn Museum Bulletin, winter 1950, p. 14.
P. Grunchec, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Géricault, Paris, 1978, p. 95, no. 61B
G. Bazin, Théodore Géricault, étude critique, documents et catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Paris, 1989, pp. 56, 193, no. 840 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, Marie Sterner Galleries, First Exhibition in America of Géricault Paintings-Drawings, 16 November - 5 December 1936, no. 20.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art (on loan from Walter Pach).

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Lot Essay

Although considered by Bazin (op. cit.) to be a study for Le carabinier, today in the Louvre, it seems that the same model in this painting was also used in another version of the same subject (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen) and, possibly, in Géricault's famous Cuirassier blessé quittant le feu (Louvre). There is also a drawing of this painting in reverse (private collection, fig. 1).

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