Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Gericault (Rouen 1791-1824 Paris)
Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Gericault (Rouen 1791-1824 Paris)
The plastermaker’s horse (‘Le cheval du plâtrier’)
signed and dated ‘Gericault 1821’ (lower left)
graphite, pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash
10 x 12 ¾ in. (25.4 x 31.4 cm)
Provenance
William Beckford, London (1760-1844) (according to the 1967 catalogue); to his daughter
Susan Euphemia Beckford, wife of Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, Brodick Castle, Isle of Arran; by descent to
Lady Jean Graham Sibyl Violet fforde, Edinburgh (1920-2017).
With Ewan Phillips Gallery; Gericault to Ernst, London, 1967, no. 5, ill.
With Paul Brame, Paris (according to Eitner, 1983).
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Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Gericault (Rouen 1791-1824 Paris)
The plastermaker’s horse (‘Le cheval du plâtrier’)
signed and dated ‘Gericault 1821’ (lower left)
graphite, pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash
10 x 12 ¾ in. (25.4 x 31.4 cm)
Provenance
William Beckford, London (1760-1844) (according to the 1967 catalogue); to his daughter
Susan Euphemia Beckford, wife of Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, Brodick Castle, Isle of Arran; by descent to
Lady Jean Graham Sibyl Violet fforde, Edinburgh (1920-2017).
With Ewan Phillips Gallery; Gericault to Ernst, London, 1967, no. 5, ill.
With Paul Brame, Paris (according to Eitner, 1983).