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Lot Essay
Hervé Bazin émet l’hypothèse de l’appartenance de ce dessin à la série que Géricault créé autour de l’affaire Fualdès qui anime la France entre 1817 et 1818 : le procureur impérial Fualdès est égorgé à Rodez, puis jeté dans les eaux de l’Aveyron. La France entière se passionne pour ce fait divers qui devient vite politique, l’assassiné étant bonapartiste et les présumés coupables, royalistes. Géricault réalise sur ce thème une série de dessins à la plume et encre brune, qui seront lithographiés (Bazin, op. cit., figs. 21-32).
Nous remercions Philippe Grunchec d’avoir confirmé l’attribution après examen visuel de l’oeuvre.
Hervé Bazin connected this drawing with a series that Géricault created around the Fualdès case which captivated France between 1817 and 1818. The imperial prosecutor Joseph Bernardin-Fualdès was strangled in the town of Rodez and thrown into the Aveyron river. The whole country took interest in the case which swiftly became political, the victim being Bonapartist and the perpetrator presumed to be royalist. Géricault produced a series of drawings in pen and ink which were made into lithographs (Bazin, op. cit., fig. 21-32).
We are grateful to Philippe Grunchec for confirming the attribution after visual examination.
Nous remercions Philippe Grunchec d’avoir confirmé l’attribution après examen visuel de l’oeuvre.
Hervé Bazin connected this drawing with a series that Géricault created around the Fualdès case which captivated France between 1817 and 1818. The imperial prosecutor Joseph Bernardin-Fualdès was strangled in the town of Rodez and thrown into the Aveyron river. The whole country took interest in the case which swiftly became political, the victim being Bonapartist and the perpetrator presumed to be royalist. Géricault produced a series of drawings in pen and ink which were made into lithographs (Bazin, op. cit., fig. 21-32).
We are grateful to Philippe Grunchec for confirming the attribution after visual examination.