M14095: Lion Devouring a Horse
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M14095
- People
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Théodore Géricault, French (Rouen 1791 - 1824 Paris)
- Title
- Lion Devouring a Horse
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Lion dévorant un cheval
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1821
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/265775
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Lithograph on off-white wove paper
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
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image: 21.2 × 31.5 cm (8 3/8 × 12 3/8 in.)
sheet: 23.4 × 35.8 cm (9 3/16 × 14 1/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower right, erased graphite: Gericault
- collector's mark: lower left, black ink: YB [in oval] [Lugt 421, mark of Alfred Beurdeley II]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Alfred Beurdeley II, Paris]. [R.E. Lewis, San Francisco] sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1964
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- only state
- Standard Reference Number
- Delteil 26; Clément 44; Brugerolles E.41
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund and Alphaeus Hyatt Fund
- Accession Year
- 1964
- Object Number
- M14095
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Printed from "stone" paper
Publication History
- Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), p. 63 note 41
- "Géricault's Staying Power", Index Magazine ([e-journal], August 13, 2018), https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/article/gericault-s-staying-power, accessed August 15, 2018
- Christina Taylor, "Géricault's 'Stone Paper'", Index Magazine, Harvard Art Museums ([e-journal], October 25, 2018), https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/article/gericault-s-stone-paper, accessed January 31, 2019
- Christina Taylor, Georgina Rayner, Christopher Wallace, and Katherine Eremin, "Géricault's Lion Devouring a Horse Stone Paper Matrix: Technical Study", Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, Routledge / Taylor & Francis (2020), pp.1-14, p. 10, fig. 11, https://doi-org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1080/01971360.2020.1726141
- Christina Taylor, Georgina Rayner, Christopher Wallace, and Katherine Eremin, Géricault’s Lion Devouring a Horse Stone Paper Matrix: Technical Study, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, American Institute for Conservation (https://doi.org/10.1080/01971360.2020.1726141, 2020), 59, 2, Pages 97-110, Figure 11, Page 106
Exhibition History
- Romantic Prints: David to Courbet, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/01/1980 - 04/30/1980
- Mutiny: Works by Géricault, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/01/2018 - 01/06/2019
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Verification Level
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