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Jean-Louis-André-Theodore Gericault (Rouen 1791-1824 Paris)
Lot 123

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

A young mother and her three children

Closed26 January 2012

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Jean-Louis-André-Theodore Gericault (Rouen 1791-1824 Paris)
A young mother and her three children
pencil
8 5/8 x 8 1/8 in. (21.9 x 20.6 cm.)

According to an inscription on an old mount 'Given by Géricault to Mlle Constant, Pud'hon's goddaughter and acquired directly from her'.
Marillier.
with Brame & Lorenceau, Paris, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

Related to Gericault's lithograph of the same subject. The young mother was married to a bootmaker who owned a flat that the artist was renting while he lived in England. The original lithographic cardboard is in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Bazin, op. cit., no. 1823), and there are two other preparatory drawings related to the composition (Bazin, op. cit., nos. 1824, 1826).