Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004856Eleven Compositional Sketches
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
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Aquisition in Focus: Théodore Géricault's Evening: Landscape with Aqueduct," November 19, 1990-February 10, 1991.
Publications
Lorenz Eitner, Géricault: An Album of Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago 1960), pp. 37-38 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, I (Chicago, 1978), pp. 65 and 79, no. 4B1. Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault, Étude Critique, Documents et Catalogue Raisonné, III (Paris, 1989), pp. 208-209, no. 885 (ill.). Gary Tinterow, "Times of Day," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, XLVIII: 3 (Winter 1990-91), pp. 37-38, cat. 2 (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
- 1813/14
- Medium
- Graphite, on tan wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 22.9 × 16.9 cm (9 1/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Collection
- Accession no.
- 1947.35.48R
More by Théodore Géricault in museum collections
Open-access museum record · AT-00004856
Powered by Art Trackers