Two horses fighting, with a subsidiary study of the same (recto); A satyr abducting a nymph (verso)

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Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Gericault (Rouen 1791-1824 Paris)
Two horses fighting, with a subsidiary study of the same (recto); A satyr abducting a nymph (verso)
with an illegible inscription (verso)
pencil, pen and brown ink, brown wash (verso), on brown paper
5 1/8 x 8 1/8 in. (130 x 206 mm.)

Provenance

Eudoxe Marcille.
Charles Clément.
Henri Delacroix, his stamp (not in Lugt).
P.O. Dubaut (L. 2103b, twice).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 23 November 1978, lot 10.

Literature

C. Clément, Géricault, Paris, 1879, supplément dessins no. 90quinque.
G. Bazin, Théodore Géricault, Etude Critique, Documents et Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 1990, IV, pp. 175-176, nos. 1302-1303 and p. 30.

Exhibited

Paris, Aubry, Géricault, 1964, no. 49.

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Lot Essay

One of a series of compositions depicting a satyr abducting a nymph (G. Bazin, op. cit., nos. 1301, 1304, 1603 and 1308). A tracing of the present drawing is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen (G. Bazin, op. cit, no. 1309). The first drawing was executed in Rome in 1817, while Bazin dates the rest of the series slightly later.

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