Théodore GÉRICAULT (Rouen 1791 - Paris 1824) Recto... - Lot 64 - Ader

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Théodore GÉRICAULT (Rouen 1791 - Paris 1824) Recto... - Lot 64 - Ader
Théodore GÉRICAULT (Rouen 1791 - Paris 1824) Recto : Study of a group of three men holding a horse for the Ripresa, with a figure on the ground on the left Verso: Roman Butteri on Horseback Arriving at the Inn Black pencil. 18 x 23 cm Provenance: - Private collection, Paris, in 2006. - Galerie de la Scala, Paris, in 2011. - Private collection, Paris. Exhibition: Géricault, La folie d'un monde, exhibition catalogue by Bruno Chenique and Sylvie Ramond, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 2006, p. 88, fig. 24, p. 226, no. 21. Having arrived in Italy at the end of 1816, Géricault attended the traditional free horse race in the Via del Corso in February 1817, during the Carnival festivities. Géricault wanted to depict this episode in a painting that was to be no less than ten metres long. Dozens of drawings relating to this research are known, as well as five painted sketches (see : G. Bazin, Théodore Géricault, tome IV, Le Voyage en Italie, Paris, La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1990, N° 1338 to 1423). The group is shown inverted in profile in the right foreground in the sketch in the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore (Bazin, No. 1343). A drawing for the same group (Bazin, No. 1400) went on sale at Artcurial on 2 April 2019 (No. 278, repr.). The overturned figure on the ground in the left foreground of our sheet may be a search for a figure jostled by the crowd or trampled by horses, as seen in many study sheets as well as on the left of the painted sketch preserved in Lille (Bazin, No. 1383). The scene on the reverse relates to the many studies Géricault made in the Roman countryside for his painting of the Ox Market. The horse-breeders of the Pontine Marshes are a recurrent theme in his sketches. They are sketched here quickly, in a sketchy landscape that recalls his youthful studies made in France before he left for Italy, as well as some landscape studies in black pencil made in Italy (see Bazin, N° 1159 and 1164).
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