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Wounded Soldiers in a Cart Géricault, Jean Louis André Théodore (painter)
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Title/s	Wounded Soldiers in a Cart
Maker/s	Géricault, Jean Louis André Théodore (painter) [ULAN info: French artist, 1791-1824]
Category	painting
Name	painting
School/Style	French
Technique Description	oil on paper laid down on canvas
Dimensions	height: (): 33.2 cm width: (): 31.0 cm height: (painted surface): 32.7 cm width: (painted surface): 30.4 cm
Date	circa 1817 to 1818
Provenance	bequeathed: Smith, Arnold John Hugh 1964 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints) Sauvé; Tabourier; de Beurnonville; Thiébault-Sisson; Duc de Trevise [not checked] Through the National Art Collections Fund.
Inscriptions/Marks	label Position: verso Method: printed label with stamped number Content: L. Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris, (with stamped number) 3515 Description: label Position: verso Method: Content: Description: H.A. Buttery stamp Position: verso Method: Douane stamp Content: Description: label Position: verso Method: Content: Description: Bourlet stamp label Position: verso Method: remains of a printed label Content: Description: seemingly of Durand-Ruel, perhaps for an exhibition label Position: verso Method: MS label Content: No. 20325, Géricault, Charrette de blessés R1000 Description: number Position: verso Method: blue chalk Content: ph 3271 Description: number Position: verso Method: blue chalk Content: 535 Description: label Position: frame Content: Géricault Exhibition 1952, no. 15, rep. p. 13, lent Hugh Smith Description: Marlborough Fine Art label Position: frame Content: Art Treasures centenary exhibition 1957, lent Hugh Smith Description: Manchester
Documentation	(2005) Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum, London: Scala [page: 92] Clément, C. (1868) Géricault, étude biographique et critique, [page: 292] [comments: no. 64] Braun (Editor) (1935) Géricault, [comments: pl. 22] Antal, F. 'Reflections on Classicism and Romanticism - III', London? [page: 74, 79] Source title: Burlington Magazine (1940) [comments: reproduced, p. 74, pl. 1 (c) (d?)] Berger, K. (1952) Géricault et son oeuvre, Vienna [page: 67] [comments: no. 14, reproduced pl. 14] Blunt, Anthony 'Gericault at the Marlborough Gallery', London? [page: 24] Source title: Burlington Magazine (1953) [comments: reproduced p. 2, fig. 1] Goodison, J.W. (1967) [Unknown; Illustrated London News; 1960], London [page: 202] Source title: Illustrated London News (1960) [comments: reproduced] Wallis, Nevile 'Géricault - the great unknown?', [page: 17] Source title: Connoisseur (1965) [comments: reproduced] (1965) National Art-Collections Fund Sixty-first Annual Report 1964, London Nochlin, Linda Géricault or the Absence of Women, Colmar, Paris [page: 409] Source title: Géricault (Louvres Conférences et colloques) (1996) [comments: fig. 205]
Accession Number	PD.10-1964 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints) (Reference Number: 2680; Input Date: 2000-03-06 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)
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Wounded Soldiers in a Cart

Géricault, Jean Louis André Théodore (painter)