Live Auction 2511Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolors Part II
Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Gericault (Rouen 1791-1824 Paris)
Lot 307

Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Gericault (Rouen 1791-1824 Paris)

Waterstairs on the Thames, with subsidiary sketches of seated figures (recto); A cloaked woman with a basket (verso)

Closed26 January 2011

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Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Gericault (Rouen 1791-1824 Paris)
Waterstairs on the Thames, with subsidiary sketches of seated figures (recto); A cloaked woman with a basket (verso)
pencil, brown wash (recto); pencil (verso)
6½ x 4 3/8 in. (16.4 x 10.9 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 22 April 1971, lot 4.
with Galerie Krugier-Ditesheim, Geneva.

Specialist note

Executed during Gericault's sojourn in England (1820-21), this drawing probably shows the waterstairs leading to the Thames at Somerset House which at the time appeared to rise directly out of the river. The stairs were destroyed in 1870 to make way for the Victoria Embankment.
While the sketches on the recto and the 'bouquetière' on the verso' cannot be connected to any particular composition they show Gericault's keen absorption in daily life in London.