
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004875Sheet of Sketches: Cavalry Battles and Mounted Soldiers
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
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Géricault," October 12-December 12, 1971, p. 49, cat. 14 (ill.), cat. by Lorenz Eitner; traveled to the Detroit Institute of Arts, January 23-March 7, 1972 and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 30-May 14, 1972. Providence, R.I., Bell Gallery, Brown University, "Rubenism," January 30-February 23, 1975, p. 23, cat. 72 (ill.). Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 33 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 70-71, cat. 31 (ill.). San Francisco, Calif., California Palace of Legion of Honor, "Géricault: Romantic Paintings and Drawings," January 28-March 26, 1989, p. 46, cat. 8, cat. by Lorenz Eitner and Steven Nash. Paris, Palais du Louvre, "Géricault," September 26, 1991-January 14, 1992, pp. 42 and 339, cat. 37, fig. 71.
Publications
Lorenz Eitner, Géricault: An Album of Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago 1960), p. 41 (ill.). Harold Joachim, and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, I (Chicago, 1978), pp. 65 and 82-83, no. 4C7. Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault, Étude Critique, Documents et Catalogue Raisonné, III (Paris, 1989), p. 177, no. 800 (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
- 17.2 × 23 cm (6 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Collection
- Accession no.
- 1947.35.57R
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