{
"data": {
"id": 140325,
"accession_number": "1964.28",
"share_license_status": "CC0",
"tombstone": "Sheet of Sketches (recto and verso), 1819. Th\u00e9odore G\u00e9ricault (French, 1791\u20131824). 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",
"current_location": null,
"title": "Sheet of Sketches (recto and verso)",
"creation_date": "1819",
"creation_date_earliest": 1819,
"creation_date_latest": 1819,
"artists_tags": [
"male"
],
"culture": [
"France, 19th century"
],
"technique": "pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper",
"support_materials": [
{
"description": "ivory laid paper",
"watermarks": [
"shell or plume"
]
}
],
"department": "Drawings",
"collection": "DR - French",
"type": "Drawing",
"measurements": "Sheet: 22.8 x 35 cm (9 x 13 3/4 in.)",
"dimensions": {
"sheet": {
"height": 0.228,
"height_inch": 9,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.0,
"width": 0.35,
"width_inch": 13,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.75
}
},
"state_of_the_work": null,
"edition_of_the_work": null,
"copyright": null,
"inscriptions": [
{
"inscription": "inscribed, in brown ink, at upper left: dessin de gericault fait \u00e0 fontain la magdelaine; watermark, at center: scallop shell (possibly J. Berger or J. Bouchet)",
"inscription_translation": null,
"inscription_remark": null,
"sortorder": null
}
],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 304723,
"title": "Year in Review (1964)",
"description": "Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).",
"opening_date": "1964-12-08T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 302152,
"title": "The Vocabulary of Prints",
"description": "The Vocabulary of Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 29-December 31, 1975).",
"opening_date": "1975-07-29T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 311467,
"title": "Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure",
"description": "Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992).",
"opening_date": "1991-11-05T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 311635,
"title": "French Drawings from the Collection",
"description": "French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).",
"opening_date": "1994-12-13T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 383281,
"title": "Stories from Storage",
"description": "Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).",
"opening_date": "2021-02-06T05:00:00"
}
],
"legacy": [
{
"description": "Danse et divertissements. Galerie Charpentier, Paris (1948\u201349).",
"opening_date": "1948-01-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "G\u00e9ricault, cet inconnu [. . .] (1791\u20131824): Aquarelles, gouaches, dessins. Galerie Bignou, Paris (May 19\u2013June 10, 1950).",
"opening_date": "1950-06-10T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Th\u00e9odore G\u00e9ricault. Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (August 30\u2013November 8, 1953).",
"opening_date": "1953-11-08T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Gros, Ge\u0301ricault, Delacroix. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (January 9\u2013March 13, 1954).",
"opening_date": "1954-03-13T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Aquarelles et dessins de Delacroix a\u0300 Vlaminck. Galerie Marcel Guiot, Paris (April 1963).",
"opening_date": "1963-04-01T00:00:00"
}
]
},
"provenance": [
{
"description": "Possibly Pierre-Olivier Dubaut [1886\u20131968], Paris",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "?-?",
"sortorder": 1
},
{
"description": "Private collection, Paris",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": "by 1948-before 1963",
"sortorder": 2
},
{
"description": "(Galerie Marcel Guiot, Paris)",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": "by 1963",
"sortorder": 3
},
{
"description": "(Walter Goetz, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "1963-1964",
"sortorder": 4
},
{
"description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "1964-",
"sortorder": 5
}
],
"find_spot": null,
"related_works": [],
"former_accession_numbers": [],
"did_you_know": "G\u00e9ricault died at a young age and had a professional career lasting only just over a decade.",
"early_education_description": null,
"artlens_description": null,
"description": "The inscription at the upper left of the sheet states that G\u00e9ricault 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.",
"external_resources": {
"wikidata": [
"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80038402"
],
"internet_archive": [
"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1964.28-sheet-of-sketches-re"
]
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "Cocteau, Jean. Danse et divertissements. Exh. cat. Paris: Galerie Charpentier, 1948.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: no. 109",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "G\u00e9ricault, cet inconnu [. . .] (1791\u20131824): Aquarelles, gouaches, dessins. Exh. cat. Paris: Galerie Bignou, 1950.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: no. 6",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Th\u00e9odore G\u00e9ricault. Exh. cat. Winterthur, Switz.: Kunstmuseum, 1953.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 46, no. 167",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Gros, Ge\u0301ricault, Delacroix. Exh. cat. Paris: Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1954.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: no. 42",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Aquarelles et dessins de Delacroix a\u0300 Vlaminck. Exh. cat. Paris: Galerie Marcel Guiot, 1963.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: no. 23",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "\"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": null
},
{
"citation": "Bazin, Germain. The\u0301odore Ge\u0301ricault: \u00c9tude critique, documents et catalogue raisonne\u0301.. Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1994.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: vol. 6, p. 72, 178, nos. 2109 and 2110; Reproduced: vol. 6, p. 178",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "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": null
},
{
"citation": "Salsbury, Britany. Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Lewes, UK, Cleveland, Ohio: GILES; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 84-87, no. 6",
"url": ""
}
],
"catalogue_raisonne": "Bazin 2109 and 2110",
"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.28",
"images": {
"annotation": null,
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.28/1964.28_web.jpg",
"width": "900",
"height": "293",
"filesize": "197062",
"filename": "1964.28_web.jpg"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.28/1964.28_print.jpg",
"width": "3400",
"height": "1107",
"filesize": "1464699",
"filename": "1964.28_print.jpg"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.28/1964.28_full.tif",
"width": "12675",
"height": "4128",
"filesize": "156993232",
"filename": "1964.28_full.tif"
}
},
"alternate_images": [
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.28/1964.28_alt0_web.jpg",
"width": "900",
"height": "599",
"filesize": "197053"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.28/1964.28_alt0_print.jpg",
"width": "3400",
"height": "2263",
"filesize": "2523238"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.28/1964.28_alt0_full.tif",
"width": "6314",
"height": "4203",
"filesize": "79641260"
},
"date_created": "2011-03-09T16:19:28",
"annotation": ""
}
],
"creditline": "Dudley P. Allen Fund",
"image_credit": null,
"sketchfab_id": null,
"sketchfab_url": null,
"gallery_donor_text": null,
"athena_id": 140325,
"creators": [
{
"id": 11643,
"description": "Th\u00e9odore G\u00e9ricault (French, 1791\u20131824)",
"extent": null,
"qualifier": null,
"role": "artist",
"biography": null,
"name_in_original_language": null,
"birth_year": "1791",
"death_year": "1824",
"use_in_caption": true,
"include_extent": false,
"weight": 1
}
],
"legal_status": "accessioned",
"accession_date": "1964-02-22T00:00:00",
"sortable_date": 1819,
"date_added_to_oa": null,
"date_text": "1819",
"collapse_artists": false,
"on_loan": false,
"recently_acquired": false,
"record_type": "cover",
"conservation_statement": null,
"has_conservation_images": false,
"cover_accession_number": null,
"is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
"impression": null,
"alternate_titles": [],
"is_highlight": false,
"updated_at": "2026-08-21 12:43:16.524000"
}
}