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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.243
People
Circle of Théodore Géricault, French (Rouen 1791 - 1824 Paris)
Previously attributed to Théodore Géricault, French (Rouen 1791 - 1824 Paris)
Previously attributed to Jean-Baptiste Regnault, French (Paris 1754 - 1829 Paris)
Title
Portrait of a Young Man
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Self-Portrait
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1822-1823
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230107

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
60.64 x 51.12 cm (23 7/8 x 20 1/8 in.)
framed: 77.79 x 66.68 x 8.89 cm (30 5/8 x 26 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: back of strainer, ink? on wood, handwritten: Exposition au Musee de Rouen, 1911 [mostly illegible]
  • exhibition label: back of strainer: Pottier / Gericault, Portrait de l'Artist / no. 193
  • exhibition label: back of strainer: Theo. Gericault / Portrait [ ] [mostly illegible]
  • exhibition label: back of strainer: Gericault, Theodore...#59. Selbstportrait der Kunstlers. / Bef. Herr Otto Ackerman, Paris
  • seal: [per conservation, partial seal:] FKV no. 30/3.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Laurent, sold [through Château d'Argentan, Orne, commissaire-priseur Edmond Bertho, May 14, 1905, lot 46]; to Otto Ackermann, sold [through Werner Feuz and Martin Birnbaum]; to Grenville L. Winthop, New York, 1936, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.243
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue des tableaux anciens & modernes, par A. Coypel, Eugène Delacroix, Géricault, Patel, Panini, Ecole de Rembrandt, etc., auct. cat., Château de Argentan (Orne, France, May 14, 1905), p. 13, lot 46, as "Portrait du maître, par lui-mème"
  • Karl Scheffler, "Chronik", Kunst und Künstler (November 1907), p. 86
  • E. Hancke, "Die Klassische Malerei im Neunzehnten Jahrhundert", Kunst und Künstler (October 1912), p. 60
  • Otto Grautoff, "Théodore Géricault, zum 100. Todestag", Die Kunst für Alle (February 1924), 39, pp. 129-142, p. 129, repr.
  • Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 7
  • Otto Benesch, "The Winthrop Collection: From Neo-Classic to Romanticism; David, Ingres, Géricault", Art News (January 1-14, 1944), vol. 42, no. 16, pp. 9-10, 20-21, 32, pp. 9-10, repr. p. 20
  • Walter Pach, "Géricault in America", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (April 1945), series 6, 27, pp. 227-240, p. 238
  • Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chassériau, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), p. 13
  • John Canaday, Mainstreams of Modern Art, Henry Holt and Co. (New York, NY, 1959), repr. p. 42
  • Lorenz Eitner, Gericault: an Album of Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1960), p. 45, note 9
  • F. H. Lem, "Gericault Portraitiste", L'Arte (1963), vol. XXVIII, pp. 59-119
  • Bruce MacDonald, "A Portrait by Gericault in the Fogg Museum" (Student paper, Harvard University, 1965), Unpublished
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), no. 86
  • Brandt Aymar, The Young Male Figure, Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1970), repr. p. 143 in b/w
  • Henri Zerner, "Théodore Géricault: Artist of Man and Beast", Apollo (June 1978), vol. CVII, no. 196, pp. 480-486, p. 485, fig. 5
  • Philippe Grunchec and Jacques Thuillier, L'Opera Completa di Gericault, Rizzoli Editore (Milan, Italy, 1978), no. A157, p. 144; repr.
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 203, p. 178, repr. in b/w
  • Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault: Etude critique, documents, et catalogue raisonné, Wildenstein Institute (Paris, France, 1987 -1997), vol. I, p. 214; vol. 2, p. 329, catalogue no. 11
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 108; repr. as no. 270
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), no. 45, pp. 140-142, repr. in color
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 45, pp. 147-148, repr. in color

Exhibition History

  • Ausstellung, Kunstsalon Walter Zimmerman, Munich, 01/01/1906 - 12/31/1906
  • Gericault-Ausstellung, Galerie Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin, 10/01/1907 - 10/31/1907
  • Millénaire Normand, Musée de Rouen, Rouen, 01/01/1911 - 12/31/1911
  • Die Klassische Malerei Frankreichs im Neunzehnten Jahrhundert, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, 01/01/1912 - 12/31/1912
  • Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art : selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944
  • Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 - 03/31/1969
  • Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004
  • Mutiny: Works by Géricault, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/01/2018 - 01/06/2019

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