Théodore Géricault (Rouen 1791-1824 Paris)

A groom rubbing down a horse

Details

Théodore Géricault (Rouen 1791-1824 Paris)
A groom rubbing down a horse
pencil, light brown wash
11½ x 8¾ in. (29.1 x 22.1 cm.)

Provenance

Binder Collection, Paris.
Richard Goetz.
P.O. Dubaut (L. 2103b);
Jacqueline Dubaut; from whom purchased by the father of the present owner in 1973.

Literature

G. Bazin, Géricault, étude critique, documents et catalogue raisonné, VII, Paris, 1997, no. 2595.
Dürer to Delacroix, Master Drawings from Stockholm, exhib. cat., Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1986, p. 147, under no. 67.
Géricault, exhib. cat., Paris, Grand Palais, 1991-2, p. 394, under no. 250.
P. Bjurström, Drawings in Swedish Public Collections: French Drawings: Nineteenth Century, Stockholm, 1986, under no. 1565.

Exhibited

Paris, Hôtel Charpentier, Centenaire de Gericault, 1924, no. 220.
Rouen, Musée des Beaux Arts, Géricault, 1924, no. 11.

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Lot Essay

This composition is known in at least three versions. The present drawing is that which was exhibited as no. 220 in the Gericault centenary exhibition of 1924. It is related to a wash drawing on the recto of fol. 7 in the album of Gericault sketches in the Art Institute of Chicago. A third variant, smaller than the present drawing but also formerly belonging to Richard Goetz, is now in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

In a letter to the present owner, dated 27 October 2004, Lorenz Eitner confirmed the attribution of the present drawing to Gericault.

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