Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004796Studies of Boxers and Sketch of Horseman Attended by Two Figures
Provenance
Probably Ary Scheffer, Paris; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 15-16, 1859, lot 16, to Anatole-Auguste Hulot [according to Paris 1991 exh. cat.]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, January 11-13, 1894. Baron Joseph Vitta (died 1942), Paris [according to Paris 1991 exh. cat.]. Sold by Cesar de Hauke to the Art Institute, 1947.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, March 15, 1988-March 16, 1990 (installation in Allerton gallery 223A). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawn on Stone: The Lithographs of Théodore Géricault," December 6, 1991-May 4, 1992.
Publications
Lorenz Eitner, Géricault: An Album of Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago 1960), p. 25-26 (ill.). Harold Joachim, and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, I (Chicago, 1978), pp. 65 and 68-69, no. 3D7. Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault, Étude Critique, Documents et Catalogue Raisonné, V (Paris, 1992), p. 225, no. 1693 (ill.).
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
- 1818/1819
- Medium
- Graphite, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 22.4 × 28.7 cm (8 7/8 × 11 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Collection
- Accession no.
- 1947.35.12
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