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

A man standing, looking towards the ground (verso); A horse in a stable (recto)

Details

Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Gericault (Rouen 1791-1824 Paris)
A man standing, looking towards the ground (verso); A horse in a stable (recto)
pencil (recto), pencil, brown and blue wash (verso)
4¼ x 7 1/8 in. (124 x 181 mm.)

Provenance

L.-J.-A. Coutan, and to his wife
Madame Coutan, 1830, by descent to her brother-in-law
Ferdinand Hauguet, 1838, by descent to his son
Maurice-Jacques-Albert Hauguet, 1860, by descent to his sister-in-law
Madame Gustave Milliet, née Schubert, 1883 (L. 464, twice).
A. Norman (L. 153c).
Anonymous sale; Galerie Motte, Geneva, November 27, 1965, lot 22.
Anonymous sale; Paris, November 18, 1972, lot 171.
Anonymous sale; Paris, December 7, 1981, lot 2.

Literature

G. Bazin, Theodore Gericault, Paris, 1992, V, no. 1840 (verso) and 1997, VII, no. 2587 (recto).

Lot Essay

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.'

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