Two Horses Cavorting (recto); Man on a Kicking Horse (verso)

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1778/1836

Carle Vernet
French, 1758-1836

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Carle Vernet
Title: Two Horses Cavorting (recto); Man on a Kicking Horse (verso)
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1778–1836
Medium: Graphite (recto and verso) on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 41.1 × 51.3 cm (16 3/16 × 20 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Allerton
Reference Number: 1945.33
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Klaus Berger, Gericaut Drawings and Watercolors (New York, 1946), pp. 23-24, no. 9 (ill.) (recto).
Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States (New York, 1947), pp. 256-257, no. 126 (ill.) (recto).
Regina Shoolman and Charles Slatkin, Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America (New York, 1950), p. 126-127, pl. 70 (recto).
Carl Georg Heise, Grosse Zeichner des XIX Jahrhunderts (Berlin, 1959), pp. 83 and 184, no. 63 (ill.) (recto).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1978), no. 2F8 and 2F9 (recto).

New York, Knoedler and Company, “Gros, Gericault, Delacroix,” 1938, cat. 37, as by Théodore Géricault; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago (recto).
San Francisco Museum of Art, “French Romantic Artists,” April 19-May 14, 1939, cat. 44, as by Théodore Géricault (recto).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Old and New,” 1946, p. 16, cat. 23, pl. XIII, cat. by Carl O. Schniewind (verso).

Paul Joseph Chenavard (died 1895) [Chicago 1946]. Alfred-Philippe Roll (died 1919) [Chicago 1946]; Mme. Alfred-Philippe Roll, (née Henriette Daux; died 1953) [Chicago 1946]. Duc de Trévise [Chicago 1946]. Sold by Robert Lebel, New York, to the Art Institute, 1945.

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