La bataille Corsini

Details

Theodore Gericault (1791-1824) after Salvator Rosa
La bataille Corsini
oil on canvas
17¼ x 25 3/8 in. (43.7 x 64.5 cm.)

Provenance

Possibly L. A. Jamar.
Hans E. Bühler; Christie's, 15 November 1985, lot 13.
Salander-O'Reilly, New York, no. 5630.

Literature

Possibly C. Clément, Géricault Etude biographique et critique, Paris, 1879, no. 163.
L. Eitner, Géricault at Winterthur, Burlington Magazine, August 1954, p. 257.
M. Huggler, Die Bemühung Géricaults um die Erneuerung der Wandmalerei in Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, 1970, vol. XXXII, p. 163.
L. Eitner, C. Clément, Géricault Supplement, Paris, 1973, p. 457, no. 163.
P. Grunchec, L'Inventaire posthume de Théodore Géricault, Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français, 1976, pp. 402 and 416, notes 75-6.
P. Grunchec, Tout L'Oeuvre peint de Géricault, Paris, 1978, no. 277A (illustrated).
G. Bazin, Théodore Géricault, Paris, 1986, vol. II, p. 298, no. 330 (illustrated p. 439).

Exhibited

Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Théodore Géricault, 1953, no. 33.

Lot Essay

A copy after Salvator Rosa is recorded in the posthumous inventory in the following grouping 'Cinq tableaux, esquisses, copies d'après Salvatorose, Schidonne, Caravage, Mole et Lesueur; 30F'. Clément records measurements of 46 x 36 cm. under his no. 163, but this may be a transposition of 63 cm., which would not invalidate identification with the present picture. This identification was accepted by Eitner (1954) and described as possibly by the same writer in 1973. Grunchec notes 'un certain manque de vigueur plastique et une absence de parti-pris' but admits that it is 'd'un beau coloris et d'une souplesse d'exécution agréable'. Bazin, however, is doubtful about the attribution.

A copy after the picture in the Louvre.

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