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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
More by Carle Vernet in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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