Currently not on view
Satyr and Nymph,
1817
Théodore Géricault, French, 1791–1824
x1986-19
Information
Title
Satyr and Nymph
Dates
1817
Maker
Medium
Black chalk with brown wash and white gouache
Dimensions
22.2 x 18.2 cm (8 3/4 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of Mrs. George L. Craig Jr., in memory of her husband, Class of 1921
Object Number
x1986-19
Place Made
Europe, Rome
Signatures
Inscribed, dated, and signed in white ink, lower right: Rome 1817. T. Gericault
Culture
Type
Materials
Probably Faivre Dusser (his sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, Vente M.D., January 27, 1870, lot 18 [as “Nymph et satyre,” no dimensions]); General Louis Bro; Colonel Olivier Bro de Comeres; Blot Collection; [the last three owners supplied by dealer]; viz. L. Eitner 1983, p. 335, note 25: “...said to be from the Bro de Comeres collection”]; Coll. Wildenstein, N.Y.;
- Lorenz Eitner, "Géricault's 'black standard bearer'", Stanford museum 2 (1973): p. 3-10., p. 3-4; p. 9, note 2; p. 5, fig. 2
- Lorenz Eitner, Géricault, his life and work, (London: Orbis, 1983)., p. 104; p. 335, note 25; p. 98, fig. 83
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Philippe Grunchec, Master drawings by Géricault, (Washington, D.C.: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1985).
, no. 40; p. 94 (illus.) - "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1986," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 46, no. 1 (1987): p. 18–52, p. 46
- Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault: étude critique, documents et catalogue raisonné, (Paris: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1987-1997). , Vol. 3: p. 91; (illus.)
- Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts (Mar., 1987)., p. 48
- Richard J. Campbell and Victor Carlson, Visions of antiquity: neoclassical figure drawings, (Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Minneapolis, MN; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1993).
- Wheelock Whitney, Géricault in Italy, (New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 1997)., p. 161 (illus.); p. 162, fig. 196
- Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Extremities: painting empire in post-revolutionary France, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002)., fig. 137, 195
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 265 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 317
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