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    Seated Italian Peasant
    Théodore Géricault. Seated Italian Peasant, 1816/1817. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004463

    Seated Italian Peasant

    by Théodore Géricault

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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.

    Open-access museum data

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    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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