Théodore Géricault
Rouen 1791 - 1824 Paris
Various Male Figures in Movement, a Horse and Rider, 1817
Pen in brown ink
18.4 x 25.5 cm
LITERATURE:
Germain Bazin: Théodore Géricault. Étude critique, documents et catalogue raisonné, vol. IV - Le voyage en Italie, Paris 1990, p. 164, no. 1267, ill.
Wheelock Whitney: Gericault in Italy, New Haven and London 1997, p. 195 f., no. 258 (ill.)
PROVENANCE:
Collection Baron Vitta, Drouot, 27-05-1926, no. 117
Galerie Saget-Le Garrec, 1972
Sotheby's New York, 23-1-2001, lot 349
Private collection, Switzerland
The drawing documents the artist's obsession with heroic gestures and dynamic movement, inspired by classical antiquity seen during the sojourn in Rome. The drawing is one of a group of sketches of similar subjects referred to as the Gigantomachy or Battle of the Titans.