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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.287
People
Théodore Géricault, French (Rouen 1791 - 1824 Paris)
Title
Study for "Landscape with Fishermen"
Other Titles
Former Title: An Italian Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1815-1816
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296243

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite, pen and brown ink, blue and brown wash on off-white modern laid paper
Dimensions
23.2 × 20.7 cm (9 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.)
framed: 50 × 44.5 cm (19 11/16 × 17 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sauvé, circa 1868. Alfred Sensisser, sold [through Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 10-15, 1877, no. 426]. Mathey, Paris. Duc de Trévise, sold [through Galerie Charpentier, commissaire-priseur: Aleph. Bellier, May 19, 1938, lot 18]. [Maurice Gobin, Paris], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, c. 1938, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.287
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Collection du Duc de Trévise: Catalogue des tableaux et dessins du XIXme siècle par Carpeaux, Chasseriau, Corot, Delacroix..., auct. cat., Galerie Charpentier (Paris, France, May 19, 1938), p. 18, lot 18, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 692, fig. 363
  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 37
  • Agnes Mongan, French Romanticism of the Eighteen Thirties, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 7, cat. no. 10
  • A Thousand Years of Landscape East and West (Paintings, Drawings, Prints), exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 1945), p. 7
  • Klaus Berger, Géricault: Drawings and Watercolors, H. Bittner and Company (New York, 1946), no. 1, repr. as pl. 1
  • Agnes Mongan, French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, 1951), cat. no. 43, repr.
  • Felice Stampfle, Landscape Drawings & Water-colors, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, 1953), p. 21, cat. no. 35
  • Lorenz Eitner, "Two Rediscovered Landscapes by Géricault", The Art Bulletin (June 1954), Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 131-142, p. 135, repr. as fig. 9
  • Max Huggler, "Two Unknown Landscapes by Géricault", The Burlington Magazine (August 1954), Vol. 96, No. 617, pp. 234-235, 237, pp. 234, 237
  • René Huyghe and Philippe Jaccottet, French Drawings of the 19th Century: 136 Reproductions, Thames and Hudson, Ltd. (London, 1956), p. 166, repr. as plate 20
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 41, repr. , also repr. on back cover
  • Lorenz Eitner, Géricault, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA, 1971), p. 67, cat. no. 30
  • Monique Geiger, Marguerite Guillaume, and Serge Lemoine, Dessins du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, exh. cat., Musée du Louvre (Paris, 1976), pp. 26-27
  • Serge Lemoine, Donation Granville: Oeuvres réalisées avant 1900, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon (Dijon, 1976), Vol. I, p. 139
  • Henri Zerner, "Théodore Géricault: Artist of Man and Beast", Apollo (June 1978), vol. CVII, no. 196, pp. 480-486, p. 480, repr. as fig. 1
  • Lorenz Eitner, Géricault: His Life and Work, Orbis Publishing Ltd. (London, England, 1983), p. 143, repr. as fig. 125
  • Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault: Etude critique, documents, et catalogue raisonné, Wildenstein Institute (Paris, France, 1987 -1997), vol. 5., no. 1430, repr., also p. 11
  • Lorenz Eitner, Géricault, 1791-1824, exh. cat., Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA, 1989), p. 54, cat. no. 26
  • Gary Tinterow, "Gericault's Heroic Landscapes: The Times of Day", Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, Winter 1990/1991), pp. 45, 69, no. 6, repr. p. 45
  • John Russell, "Small Exhibits: Like Jefferson Dining Alone", The New York Times (Sunday, December 9, 1990), pp. 35-36, pp. 35-36, repr. p. 35
  • Sylvain Laveissière and Régis Michel, Gericault, exh. cat., Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1991), p. 371, no. 157
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 173, repr.
  • Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1999-2000, 2000, p. 35
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 139, repr. p. 139 as fig. 298

Exhibition History

  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/01/1941 - 06/01/1941
  • French Romanticism of the Eighteen Thirties, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/16/1943 - 02/12/1943
  • A Thousand Years of Landscape East and West, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 10/24/1945 - 12/09/1945
  • French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/15/1951 - 09/30/1951
  • Landscape Drawings and Watercolors, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 01/01/1953 - 12/31/1953
  • Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
  • Géricault, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 10/12/1971 - 12/12/1971; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 01/23/1972 - 03/07/1972; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 03/30/1972 - 05/14/1972
  • The Age of Romanticism, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/15/1986 - 05/18/1986
  • Géricault, 1791-1824, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 01/28/1989 - 03/26/1989
  • Gericault's Heroic Landscapes: The Times of Day, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 11/06/1990 - 01/13/1991
  • Gericault, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 10/10/1991 - 01/06/1992
  • The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995
  • Mutiny: Works by Géricault, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/01/2018 - 01/06/2019

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