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Théodore GERICAULT (Rouen 1791-Paris 1824)

Recto: Saltimbanque at the helm and saltimbanque preparing a pear tree, sketch of seaside landscape. Verso: Combat scene with a mameluk rescuing a child in a mountainous landscape Black pencil and brown wash, signed Théod. Géricault on verso and monogrammed HV on recto (small stains, glued on edges, small reinforcement on a 3 cm tear top left). 20.5 x 30.2 cm Provenance : Former collection of General BRO de COMÈRES, then by descent. The figure of an acrobat preparing a pear tree can be compared to a sketch in the upper right-hand corner of a sheet in the Kunsthaus Zurich (BAZIN, Théodore GÉRICAULT, ed. Bibliothèque des Arts, 1990, tome IV IV, n°1291, repr. p.272). This sketch is part of a sheet of studies executed during the trip to Italy, with sketches of prisoners and horses. The acrobats seem to correspond to the academic exercise of the five dots. The subject of the verso can be compared with the Mamelouk of the Imperial Guard defending a wounded trumpeter (BAZIN, opus quoted above, vol. V, n°1510, repr.), which he later lithographed after his return from Italy.

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Théodore GERICAULT (Rouen 1791-Paris 1824)

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