拍品专文
Professor Lorenz Eitner confirmed the attribution to Gericault on the basis of a photograph in a letter dated January 18, 2002. Professor Eitner dates the drawing to the artist's stay in England and adds that a drawing 'stylistically comparable to the study of the man, and quite possibly of the same album, was in 1983 in the collection of Talbot Rice in London (G. Bazin, op. cit., VIII, no. 2219 verso). Mr. Rice also had several pages of studies done in the typical London style that Gericault executed during his travels to London. In their own right, the intimate drawings are important examples of Gericault's spontaneous style of drawing that he only fully developed towards the end of his life.'