Five Sketches for a Cavalry Battle

Prints and Drawings

1813/14

Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
French, 1791-1824

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Artist: Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
Title: Five Sketches for a Cavalry Battle
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.: 1813–1814
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 17.2 × 22.8 cm (6 13/16 × 9 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Collection
Reference Number: 1947.35.50R
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Lorenz Eitner, Géricault: An Album of Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago 1960), p. 39 (ill.).
Harold Joachim, and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, I (Chicago, 1978), pp. 65 and 80, no. 4B5.
Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault, Étude Critique, Documents et Catalogue Raisonné, III (Paris, 1989), pp. 205-206, no. 875 (ill.).

London, Royal Academy of Arts, “Rubens and His Legacy”, January 24 - April 10, 2015, p.58 (ill.), cat. 18, travelled to Brussels, Centre for Fine Arts, September 25, 2014 - January 4, 2015

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

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