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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Two Horses Cavorting (recto); Man on a Kicking Horse (verso)
    Carle Vernet. Two Horses Cavorting (recto); Man on a Kicking Horse (verso), 1778/1836. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00004792

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    Two Horses Cavorting (recto); Man on a Kicking Horse (verso)

    by Carle Vernet

    Provenance

    Paul Joseph Chenavard (died 1895) [Chicago 1946]. Alfred-Philippe Roll (died 1919) [Chicago 1946]; Mme. Alfred-Philippe Roll, (née Henriette Daux; died 1953) [Chicago 1946]. Duc de Trévise [Chicago 1946]. Sold by Robert Lebel, New York, to the Art Institute, 1945.

    Exhibition history

    New York, Knoedler and Company, "Gros, Gericault, Delacroix," 1938, cat. 37, as by Théodore Géricault; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago (recto). San Francisco Museum of Art, "French Romantic Artists," April 19-May 14, 1939, cat. 44, as by Théodore Géricault (recto). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Old and New," 1946, p. 16, cat. 23, pl. XIII, cat. by Carl O. Schniewind (verso).

    Publications

    Klaus Berger, Gericaut Drawings and Watercolors (New York, 1946), pp. 23-24, no. 9 (ill.) (recto). Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States (New York, 1947), pp. 256-257, no. 126 (ill.) (recto). Regina Shoolman and Charles Slatkin, Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America (New York, 1950), p. 126-127, pl. 70 (recto). Carl Georg Heise, Grosse Zeichner des XIX Jahrhunderts (Berlin, 1959), pp. 83 and 184, no. 63 (ill.) (recto). Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1978), no. 2F8 and 2F9 (recto).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Carle Vernet / French, 1758-1836
    Date
    1778/1836
    Medium
    Graphite (recto and verso) on cream wove paper
    Dimensions
    41.1 × 51.3 cm (16 3/16 × 20 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    drawings (visual works)
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Robert Allerton
    Accession no.
    1945.33

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