Théodore Géricault
Rouen 1791 - 1824 Paris
Various Male Figures in Movement, a Horse and Rider, 1817
Pen in brown ink
18.4 x 25.5 cm
LITERATURE:
Germain Bazin: Théodore Géricault. Étude critique, documents et catalogue raisonné, vol. IV - Le voyage en Italie, Paris 1990, p. 164, no. 1267, ill.
Wheelock Whitney: Gericault in Italy, New Haven and London 1997, p. 195 f., no. 258 (ill.)
PROVENANCE:
Collection Baron Vitta, Drouot, 27-05-1926, no. 117
Galerie Saget-Le Garrec, 1972
Sotheby's New York, 23-1-2001, lot 349
Private collection, Switzerland
The drawing documents the artist's enthusiasm with heroic gestures and dynamic movement, inspired by classical antiquity seen during his sojourn in Rome, 1816-1817. The drawing is one of a group of sketches of similar subjects referred to as the Gigantomachy or Battle of the Titans.