A PLASTER MODEL OF A NYMPH AND A SATYR

AFTER THEODORE GERICAULT, FIRST HALF 20TH CENTURY

Details

A PLASTER MODEL OF A NYMPH AND A SATYR
AFTER THEODORE GERICAULT, FIRST HALF 20TH CENTURY
The embracing figures on a rectangular base, signed to reverse
11¼ in. (29 cm.) high, 14 in. (36 cm.) wide, 6¼ in. (16 cm.) deep

Provenance

(Possibly) Emmanouel Hannaux.

Literature

(Possibly) R. Régamy, Paris, 1926, p. 63, no. 40.
(Possibly) P. Vitri, 'Dessins de sculpteurs et sculptures de peintres', Beaux-Arts, 15 December 1928, p. 325.
(Possibly) L. Benoist, La sculpture romantique, Paris, n.d. p. 39, note 1.
(Possibly) R. Fry, Characteristics of French Art, London, 1932, plate XIXB, facing p. 88.
(Possibly) P.J. Kelleher, 'A sculpture and painting by Thédore Géricault', Gallery Notes, vol. XVII, no. 1, Buffaly, January 1953, p. 6, note 3.
(Possibly) 'Museum acquisitions', Burlington Magazine, August 1954, p. 265.
(Possibly) O. Popovitch, 'Une sculpture de Géricault', La Revue du Louvre, 1964, no. 4, 5, p. 274, note 4.
(Possibly) Géricault, Tout l'oeuvre gravé et pièces en rapport, Musée des beaux-arts, Rouen, 1981 - 1982, p. 115.
(Possibly) G. Bazin, Géricault, Paris, 1992, pp. 134 - 135, cat. 1448B.

Exhibited

(Possibly) Paris, galerie Bernier, Dessins de sculpteurs et sculptures de peintres, 1928, no. 61.

Lot Essay

This model in stone is first mentioned by C. Clément in 1867 as having been given to general Louis Bro by Théodore Géricault. Géricault appears to have executed the same model in bronze, terracotta and plaster. The earliest mention of a plaster model is in R. Régamey's Géricault, 'Maîtres de l'Art moderne', Paris, 1926, where it it indicated as belonging to Emmanuel Hannaux. A version of it was sold anonymously, Drouot, Paris, 15 June 1990, lot 48.

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