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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    The Rescue of the Survivors of the Raft of the Medusa
    Théodore Géricault. The Rescue of the Survivors of the Raft of the Medusa, c. 1818. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002770

    The Rescue of the Survivors of the Raft of the Medusa

    by Théodore Géricault

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    A. M. Courtin, c. 1867 [Clement 1867]. Pierre Dubaut (died 1968), by 1935-at least 1963 [Paris 1935; del Guercio 1963]; probably by descent to M. Dubaut, Paris [Eitner 1972]. Sold by the Harriet Griffin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1973.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Maurice Gobin, "Dessins Aquarelles et Gouaches par Géricault," December 5-21, 1935, cat. 43. Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, "Géricault Peintre et Dessinateur," May 1937, cat. 126. Paris, Galerie Bignou, "Géricault, cet Inconnu," May 19-June 10, 1950, cat. 45. London, Marlborough Gallery, 1952, cat. 49. Kunstmuseum Winterthur, "Géricault," August 30- November 8, 1953, cat. 173. Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, "Gros, Géricault, Delacroix," 1954, cat. 53. Paris, Galerie Charle Aubry, "Géricault dans les Collections Privées Françaises," November 6-December 7, 1964, cat. 68. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Géricault," 1971, cat. 74. Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, "Géricault," September 24, 1991-January 14, 1992, cat. 186.

    Publications

    Charles Clement, Géricault Étude Biographique et Critique avec le Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre du Maître (Paris, 1868), no. 112. Denise Aime-Azam, Mazeppa, Géricault et son Temps (Paris, 1956), p. 192 (ill.). A. del Guercio, Géricault (Milan, 1963), no. 56 (ill.). Lorenz Eitner, Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (London, 1972), no. 2 (ill.). Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago, (Chicago, 1979), no. 3B10. Germain Bazin, Theodore Géricault, VI (Paris, 1994), no. 1948 (ill.).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault / French, 1791-1824
    Date
    c. 1818
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink, over traces of graphite, on tan wove paper
    Dimensions
    22.5 × 30.1 cm (8 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Margaret Day Blake Fund income
    Accession no.
    1973.721

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