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Study after "Trumpeter of the Hussars"

Style of Théodore Géricault

French, 1791–1824

Study after "Trumpeter of the Hussars"

c. 1815–27

Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 14 1/16 x 10 5/8 in. (35.7 x 27 cm) Original dimensions: 12 13/16 x 9 9/16 in. (32.5 x 24.3 cm)
Object Number 1955.745
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Style of Théodore Géricault, Study after "Trumpeter of the Hussars", c. 1815–27, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.745

Select Bibliography

Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York.. Théodore Géricault. April 7-May 23, 1987. Grand Palais, Paris.. Géricault. Sept. 26, 1991-Jan. 6, 1992.. 1991.. Watson, Wendy M., and Thomas Branchick. Altered States: Conservation, Analysis and the Interpretation of Works of Art. Exhibition catalogue. South Hadley, MA: Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art, 1994. Charles Blanc.. Le Trésor de la curiosité tiré des catalogues de ventes de tableaux, dessins, estampes, livres.. Paris: Ve J. Renouard.. 1857-58.. Charles Blanc.. Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles. 14 vols.. Paris: Librairie Renouard.. 1861-76.. Grunchec, Philippe. "Géricault: problèmes de méthode."Revue de l'art 43 (Editions du C.N.R.S., 1979): 37-58. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Grunchec, Philippe. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Géricault. Classiques de l'art. Paris: Flammarion, 1978. Bazin, Germain. Le retour à Paris: Synthèse d'expériences plastiques. Vol. 5 of Théodore Géricault: Etude critique, documents et catalogue raisonné. Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts, 1992. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.

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Provenance

Probably Paul Barroilhet, Paris (his sale, Drouot, Paris, 12 Mar. 1855, no. 38, as La vedette, sold to Mercier); Robert Sterling Clark (by 1952–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.

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