Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004858Sheet of Sketches: three Landscapes, Horses, and Hooves
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.
Publications
Lorenz Eitner, Géricault: An Album of Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1960), pp. 38-39 (ill.). Harold Joachim, and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, I (Chicago, 1978), pp. 65 and 79, no. 4B3. Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault, Étude Critique, Documents et Catalogue Raisonné, III (Paris, 1989), p. 150, no. 7287 (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 and black pastel, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 17.4 × 23 cm (6 7/8 × 9 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Collection
- Accession no.
- 1947.35.49R
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