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The Rescue of the Survivors of the Raft of the Medusa

Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault · c. 1818

Provenance

Ownership history

A. M. Courtin, c. 1867 [Clement 1867]. Pierre Dubaut (died 1968), by 1935-at least 1963 [Paris 1935; del Guercio 1963]; probably by descent to M. Dubaut, Paris [Eitner 1972]. Sold by the Harriet Griffin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1973.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Paris, Maurice Gobin, "Dessins Aquarelles et Gouaches par Géricault," December 5-21, 1935, cat. 43.
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, "Géricault Peintre et Dessinateur," May 1937, cat. 126.
Paris, Galerie Bignou, "Géricault, cet Inconnu," May 19-June 10, 1950, cat. 45.
London, Marlborough Gallery, 1952, cat. 49.
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, "Géricault," August 30- November 8, 1953, cat. 173.
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, "Gros, Géricault, Delacroix," 1954, cat. 53.
Paris, Galerie Charle Aubry, "Géricault dans les Collections Privées Françaises," November 6-December 7, 1964, cat. 68.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Géricault," 1971, cat. 74.
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, "Géricault," September 24, 1991-January 14, 1992, cat. 186.

Literature

Charles Clement, Géricault Étude Biographique et Critique avec le Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre du Maître (Paris, 1868), no. 112.
Denise Aime-Azam, Mazeppa, Géricault et son Temps (Paris, 1956), p. 192 (ill.).
A. del Guercio, Géricault (Milan, 1963), no. 56 (ill.).
Lorenz Eitner, Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (London, 1972), no. 2 (ill.).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago, (Chicago, 1979), no. 3B10.
Germain Bazin, Theodore Géricault, VI (Paris, 1994), no. 1948 (ill.).

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