Mounted Chasseur

Prints and Drawings

1813/1814

Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
French, 1791-1824

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
Title: Mounted Chasseur
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.: 1803–1824
Medium: Graphite, on tan wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 17.4 × 23.1 cm (6 7/8 × 9 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Collection
Reference Number: 1947.35.64
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Lorenz Eitner, Géricault: An Album of Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago 1960), p. 42 (ill.).
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, I (Chicago, 1978), pp. 65 and 85, no. 4D6.
Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault, Étude Critique, Documents et Catalogue Raisonné, III (Paris, 1989), p. 179, no. 805 (ill.).

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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