The Rescue of the Survivors of the Raft of the Medusa

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1818

Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
French, 1791-1824

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
Title: The Rescue of the Survivors of the Raft of the Medusa
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.: 1818–1824
Medium: Pen and brown ink, over traces of graphite, on tan wove paper
Dimensions: 22.5 × 30.1 cm (8 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Fund income
Reference Number: 1973.721
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Charles Clement, Géricault Étude Biographique et Critique avec le Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre du Maître (Paris, 1868), no. 112.
Denise Aime-Azam, Mazeppa, Géricault et son Temps (Paris, 1956), p. 192 (ill.).
A. del Guercio, Géricault (Milan, 1963), no. 56 (ill.).
Lorenz Eitner, Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa (London, 1972), no. 2 (ill.).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago, (Chicago, 1979), no. 3B10.
Germain Bazin, Theodore Géricault, VI (Paris, 1994), no. 1948 (ill.).

Paris, Maurice Gobin, “Dessins Aquarelles et Gouaches par Géricault,” December 5-21, 1935, cat. 43.
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, “Géricault Peintre et Dessinateur,” May 1937, cat. 126.
Paris, Galerie Bignou, “Géricault, cet Inconnu,” May 19-June 10, 1950, cat. 45.
London, Marlborough Gallery, 1952, cat. 49.
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, “Géricault,” August 30- November 8, 1953, cat. 173.
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, “Gros, Géricault, Delacroix,” 1954, cat. 53.
Paris, Galerie Charle Aubry, “Géricault dans les Collections Privées Françaises,” November 6-December 7, 1964, cat. 68.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Géricault,” 1971, cat. 74.
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, “Géricault,” September 24, 1991-January 14, 1992, cat. 186.

A. M. Courtin, c. 1867 [Clement 1867]. Pierre Dubaut (died 1968), by 1935-at least 1963 [Paris 1935; del Guercio 1963]; probably by descent to M. Dubaut, Paris [Eitner 1972]. Sold by the Harriet Griffin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1973.

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