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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

1. label
   Position: verso
   Method: printed label with stamped number
   Content: L. Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris, (with stamped number) 3515
   Description:
   
2. label
   Position: verso
   Method:
   Content:
   Description: H.A. Buttery
   
3. stamp
   Position: verso
   Method: Douane stamp
   Content:
   Description:
   
4. label
   Position: verso
   Method:
   Content:
   Description: Bourlet stamp
   
5. label
   Position: verso
   Method: remains of a printed label
   Content:
   Description: seemingly of Durand-Ruel, perhaps for an exhibition
   
6. label
   Position: verso
   Method: MS label
   Content: No. 20325, Géricault, Charrette de blessés R1000
   Description:
   
7. number
   Position: verso
   Method: blue chalk
   Content: ph 3271
   Description:
   
8. number
   Position: verso
   Method: blue chalk
   Content: 535
   Description:
   
9. label
   Position: frame
   Content: Géricault Exhibition 1952, no. 15, rep. p. 13, lent Hugh Smith
   Description: Marlborough Fine Art
   
10. label
    Position: frame
    Content: Art Treasures centenary exhibition 1957, lent Hugh Smith
    Description: Manchester
    

Documentation

1. (2005) Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum, London: Scala [page: 92]
2. Clément, C. (1868) Géricault, étude biographique et critique, [page: 292]
   [comments: no. 64]
3. Braun (Editor) (1935) Géricault,
   [comments: pl. 22]
4. 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?)]
5. Berger, K. (1952) Géricault et son oeuvre, Vienna [page: 67]
   [comments: no. 14, reproduced pl. 14]
6. Blunt, Anthony 'Gericault at the Marlborough Gallery', London? [page: 24]
   Source title: Burlington Magazine (1953)
   [comments: reproduced p. 2, fig. 1]
7. Goodison, J.W. (1967) [Unknown; Illustrated London News; 1960], London [page: 202]
   Source title: Illustrated London News (1960)
   [comments: reproduced]
8. Wallis, Nevile 'Géricault - the great unknown?', [page: 17]
   Source title: Connoisseur (1965)
   [comments: reproduced]
9. (1965) National Art-Collections Fund Sixty-first Annual Report 1964, London
10. 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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