
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004463Seated Italian Peasant
Provenance
Edmond de Marcis (died 1900), Paris [Paris 1991]. Pierre Dubaut (died 1968) [Lugt 2103b]. Hans E. Bühler (died 1967), Winterthur, Switzerland, by 1953 [Winterthur 1953]; sold, Christie’s, London, November 15, 1985, lot 54, to E. V. Thaw and Company, New York, for the Art Institute, 1985.
Exhibition history
Winterthur, Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, "Théodore Géricault 1791-1824," 30 August-8 November 1953, cat. 158. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Calif. "Géricault: Romantic Paintings and Drawings", shown at the California Palace of Legion of Honor, San Francisco, January 28-February 26, 1989, cat. 15. New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 36; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992. Paris, Galeries Nationaux du Grand Palais, "Géricault," September 24, 1991-January 14, 1992, cat. 102.
Publications
Pierre Dubaut, Géricault, 1791-1824, Sammlung Hans E. Bühler (Winterthur, 1956), no. 55 (ill.). Lorenz Eitner, Géricault, His Life and Work (1983), pp. 114, 336 (note 57). Philippe Grunchec, Master Drawings by Géricault (1985-86), p. 87 (ill.). Alan Artner, "3 Important Pieces Acquired by The Art Institute," Chicago Tribune (27 February 1986), p. 9E. Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault, IV (Paris, 1990), pp. 131-32, no. 1186 (ill.). "Maineri to Miro: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), pp. 64-65, no. 27 (ill.). Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 12-13. Jay A. Clarke, “Haitian Horseman, c. 1818,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), p. 66.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault / French, 1791-1824
- Date
- 1816/1817
- Medium
- Watercolor, with black crayon and traces of pink gouache, over black chalk, on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 25.8 × 21.3 cm (10 3/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Regenstein Collection
- Accession no.
- 1985.773
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