Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004892Studies of Heads and Two Compositional Studies
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. 8, cat. by Kate H. Spencer. Paris, Palais du Louvre, "Gericault," September 26, 1991-January 14, 1992, pp. 174 and 347, cat. 65, fig. 281.
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 68, no. 3D3. Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault, Étude Critique, Documents et Catalogue Raisonné, V (Paris, 1992), p. 139, no. 1458 (ill.). Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Extremities in Paint: Embodying Empire in Post-Revolutionary France (Yale University Press, 2001).
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
- Medium
- Graphite, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 28.9 × 22.7 cm (11 7/16 × 8 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Collection
- Accession no.
- 1947.35.8
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