id: 140325 accession number: 1964.28 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.28 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:17.691000 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) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1819 creation date earliest: 1819 creation date latest: 1819 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- 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 --- CREATORS * Théodore Géricault (French, 1791–1824) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 22.8 x 35 cm (9 x 13 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: 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) translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1964) opening date: 1964-12-08T05:00:00 Year in Review (1964). 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 Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure. 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 French Drawings from the Collection. 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 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Danse et divertissements. Galerie Charpentier, Paris (1948–49). * Géricault, cet inconnu [. . .] (1791–1824): Aquarelles, gouaches, dessins. Galerie Bignou, Paris (May 19–June 10, 1950). * Théodore Géricault. Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (August 30–November 8, 1953). * Gros, Géricault, Delacroix. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (January 9–March 13, 1954). * Aquarelles et dessins de Delacroix à Vlaminck. Galerie Marcel Guiot, Paris (April 1963). --- PROVENANCE Possibly Pierre-Olivier Dubaut [1886–1968], Paris date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Private collection, Paris date: by 1948-before 1963 footnotes: citations: (Galerie Marcel Guiot, Paris) date: by 1963 footnotes: citations: (Walter Goetz, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: 1963-1964 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1964- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Géricault died at a young age and had a professional career lasting only just over a decade. digital description: The inscription at the upper left of the sheet states that Géricault executed these studies at the spring of the Magdelaine, near the forest of Fontainebleau, which he visited in 1819. The male figures closely resemble the earlier studies he made while in Italy of peasants during horse races at annual Roman carnivals. Here, men struggle to keep control of their unseen animals during the moments before the race. The verso female figures, visible though the paper, derive directly from Pompeiian paintings of bacchanals, or revelers participating in festivals honoring Bacchus, the god of wine. wall description: Théodore Géricault created this drawing while visiting Féricy, a village near Paris, following the disappointing reception of his painting The Raft of the Medusa in its first public exhibition. The artist considered the canvas his greatest achievement, and its rejection by critics led him to reevaluate his practice and engage in his passion for drawing. Géricault’s host during his subsequent travels described spending a day in the artist’s company as he sketched at the Magdelaine, a local fountain. Géricault noted this location above imaginatively posed figures, some resembling those in his painting, suggesting his continued reflection on its imagery. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cocteau, Jean. Danse et divertissements. Exh. cat. Paris: Galerie Charpentier, 1948. page number: Mentioned: no. 109 url: Géricault, cet inconnu [. . .] (1791–1824): Aquarelles, gouaches, dessins. Exh. cat. Paris: Galerie Bignou, 1950. page number: Mentioned: no. 6 url: Théodore Géricault. Exh. cat. Winterthur, Switz.: Kunstmuseum, 1953. page number: Mentioned: p. 46, no. 167 url: Gros, Géricault, Delacroix. Exh. cat. Paris: Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1954. page number: Mentioned: no. 42 url: Aquarelles et dessins de Delacroix à Vlaminck. Exh. cat. Paris: Galerie Marcel Guiot, 1963. page number: Mentioned: no. 23 url: "Year in Review for 1964." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 10 (1964): 236-66. page number: Mentioned: p. 265, no. 119; Reproduced: p. 246 url: Bazin, Germain. Théodore Géricault: Étude critique, documents et catalogue raisonné.. Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1994. page number: Mentioned: vol. 6, p. 72, 178, nos. 2109 and 2110; Reproduced: vol. 6, p. 178 url: Ives, Colta and Elizabeth E. Barker. Romanticism & the School of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Mentioned: p. 43n3 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.28/1964.28_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.28/1964.28_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.28/1964.28_full.tif