About This Artwork

Jean Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827-1875)
after Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault (French, 1791-1824)

Back View of Seated Figure, Lifting Left Arm, n.d.

Black and white chalk on blue wove paper
160 x 122 mm
Worcester Sketch Fund, 1974.38

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Ownership History

Possibly the artist's estate; possibly the artist's brother, Edward Carpeaux, Elko, Nev. [a letter from Paul Ogden in the curatorial file]. Private Collection, San Rafael, Calif., to around 1939 [letter mentioned above]. Isabelle Percy West, Calif., c. 1939-c. 1959 [letter mentioned above]. Paul Ogden, Lafayette, Calif., c. 1959 [letter mentioned above]; sold to the Art Institute, 1974.