
Turkish Cavalier in Combat
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault · c. 1818
Provenance
Ownership history
- Duc d'Aumale (son of King Louis Phillippe) [invoice]. Duc de Chartres, after 1910 [invoice]. Private Collection, before 1939-about 1994 [invoice]; sold by Galerie de la Scala, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1994.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, “Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975,” April 22-July 16 2000, cat. 28.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gods and (Super)heroes: Drawing in an Age of Revolution", November 16, 2017 - April 1, 2018.
Literature
Published references
- Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault. Etude critiques, documents et catalogue raisonné, 7 (Paris, 1997), p. 285, cat. 2773 (ill.).
- James N. Wood, with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff, Treasures from the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2000), p.188 (ill.).
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument:’ The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), pp. 12-13.
- Jay A. Clarke, “Haitian Horseman, c. 1818,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), pp. 66-67, cat. 28 (ill.).
- Bruno Chenique, Les Chevaux Géricault (Paris, 2002), p. 46 (ill.).
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