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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Study of Figure Group, with Detail of Grenadier's Head
    Théodore Géricault. Study of Figure Group, with Detail of Grenadier's Head, 1818. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004891

    Study of Figure Group, with Detail of Grenadier's Head

    by Théodore Géricault

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Probably Ary Scheffer, Paris; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 15-16, 1859, lot 16, to Anatole-Auguste Hulot [according to Paris 1991]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, January 11-13, 1894. Baron Joseph Vitta (died 1942), Paris [according to Paris 1991]. Sold by Cesar de Hauke to the Art Institute, 1947.

    Exhibition history

    New Haven, Conn., Yale Art Gallery, "The Graphic Art of Géricault," February 5-March 30, 1969, p. 23, cat. 7, cat. by Kate H. Spencer. 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. 36 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 74-75, cat. 34 (ill.). Kamakura, Japan, Musée d'Art Moderne, "Géricault," October 31-December 20, 1987, pp. 152-153, cat. D-22 (ill.); traveled to Kyoto, Japan, Musée National d'Art Moderne, February 2-March 21, 1988; and Fukuoka, Japan, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Fukuoka, March 24-April 24, 1988. Paris, Palais du Louvre, "Gericault," September 26, 1991-January 14, 1992, pp. 174 and 347, cat. 64, fig. 280.

    Publications

    Lorenz Eitner, Géricault: An Album of Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago 1960), p. 24 (ill.). Harold Joachim, and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, I (Chicago, 1978), pp. 65 and 67, no. 3D2. Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault, Étude Critique, Documents et Catalogue Raisonné, V (Paris, 1992), pp. 138-139, no. 1457 (ill.).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault / French, 1791-1824
    Date
    1818
    Medium
    Graphite, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on cream wove paper
    Dimensions
    28.7 × 22.5 cm (11 5/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    graphite
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Margaret Day Blake Collection
    Accession no.
    1947.35.7

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