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accession number:	1964.28
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Sheet of Sketches (recto and verso), 1819. Théodore Géricault (French, 1791–1824). Pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper; sheet: 22.8 x 35 cm (9 x 13 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1964.28

title:				Sheet of Sketches (recto and verso)
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creation date:			1819
creation date earliest:		1819
creation date latest:		1819
current location:		
creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: Bazin 2109 and 2110

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CREATORS

* Théodore Géricault (French, 1791–1824)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 22.8 x 35 cm (9 x 13 3/4 in.)
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	description:	ivory laid paper
	watermarks:	
			* shell or plume
			

inscriptions:

	inscription:	inscribed, in brown ink, at upper left: dessin de gericault fait à fontain la magdelaine; watermark, at center: scallop shell (possibly J. Berger or J. Bouchet)
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review (1964)
	opening date:   1964-12-08T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review (1964)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).

	title:		Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure
	opening date:   1991-11-05T05:00:00
	<i>Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992).

	title:		French Drawings from the Collection
	opening date:   1994-12-13T05:00:00
	<i>French Drawings from the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).

	title:		Stories From Storage
	opening date:   2021-02-07T05:00:00
	<i>Stories From Storage</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Danse et divertissements</em>. Galerie Charpentier, Paris (1948–49).', 'opening_date': '1948-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Géricault, cet inconnu </em>[. . .] <em>(1791–1824): Aquarelles, gouaches, dessins</em>. Galerie Bignou, Paris (May 19–June 10, 1950).', 'opening_date': '1950-06-10T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Théodore Géricault</em>. Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (August 30–November 8, 1953).', 'opening_date': '1953-11-08T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Gros, Géricault, Delacroix</em>. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (January 9–March 13, 1954).', 'opening_date': '1954-03-13T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Aquarelles et dessins de Delacroix à Vlaminck</em>. Galerie Marcel Guiot, Paris (April 1963).', 'opening_date': '1963-04-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Possibly Pierre-Olivier Dubaut [1886–1968], Paris
	date: ?-?
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	Private collection, Paris
	date: by 1948-before 1963
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	(Galerie Marcel Guiot, Paris)
	date: by 1963
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	(Walter Goetz, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: 1963-1964
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1964-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cocteau, Jean. <em>Danse et divertissements</em>. Exh. cat. Paris: Galerie Charpentier, 1948.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 109
	url:		

	<em>Géricault, cet inconnu </em>[. . .] <em>(1791–1824): Aquarelles, gouaches, dessins</em>. Exh. cat. Paris: Galerie Bignou, 1950.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 6
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	<em>Théodore Géricault</em>. Exh. cat. Winterthur, Switz.: Kunstmuseum, 1953.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 46, no. 167
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	<em>Gros, Géricault, Delacroix</em>. Exh. cat. Paris: Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1954.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 42
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	<em>Aquarelles et dessins de Delacroix à Vlaminck</em>. Exh. cat. Paris: Galerie Marcel Guiot, 1963.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 23
	url:		

	"Year in Review for 1964." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 51, no. 10 (1964): 236-66.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 265, no. 119; Reproduced: p. 246
	url:		

	Bazin, Germain. <em>Théodore Géricault: Étude critique, documents et catalogue raisonné</em>.. Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1994.
	page number: 	Mentioned: vol. 6, p. 72, 178, nos. 2109 and 2110; Reproduced: vol. 6, p. 178
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	Ives, Colta and Elizabeth E. Barker. <em>Romanticism &amp; the School of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection</em>. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 43n3
	url:		

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