Live Auction 20450Old Master and British Works on Paper: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 1500-1900
JEAN-LOUIS-ANDRÉ-THÉODORE GERICAULT (ROUEN 1791-1824 PARIS)
Lot 62 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION

JEAN-LOUIS-ANDRÉ-THÉODORE GERICAULT (ROUEN 1791-1824 PARIS)

A nude man mourning the death of another (recto); and figure studies (verso)

Closed5 July 2022

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JEAN-LOUIS-ANDRÉ-THÉODORE GERICAULT (ROUEN 1791-1824 PARIS)
A nude man mourning the death of another (recto); and figure studies (verso)
pen and brown ink (recto); graphite on light brown paper (verso)
18.6 x 23.9 cm (7 3⁄8 x 9 1⁄2 in.)

Possibly Alexandre-Marie Colin (1798-1875), Paris.
Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803-1902), London.
with Christopher Powney, London (Early drawings, 1968, no. 33).
with Claude Aubry, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 26 January 2011, lot 681.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 24 January 2017, lot 110.

Specialist note

The recto is one of numerous studies for the famous painting in the Louvre, The Raft of the Medusa, completed in 1819 (inv. 4884). It shows a father holding his dead son in the foreground of the raft to the left of the painting (for other studies of this duo, see G. Bazin, Théodore Gericault. Etude critique, documents et catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1994, VI, nos. 1996-2010). The verso, in graphite, shows a female nude. The painter Alexandre-Marie Colin (1798-1875) made a tracing of the recto (Private collection; G. Bazin, op. cit., 1994, no. 170).