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Four Sketches for a Cavalry Battle

A work made of graphite and brush and brown wash, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper.
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  • A work made of graphite and brush and brown wash, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper.

Date:

c. 1814

Artist:

Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
French, 1791-1824

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

Title

Four Sketches for a Cavalry Battle

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1814–1824

Medium

Graphite and brush and brown wash, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

17.4 × 23.3 cm (6 7/8 × 9 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Margaret Day Blake Collection

Reference Number

1947.35.46R

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