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Cheval de la Plaine de Caen (A Horse From The Plain of Caen) 1822
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
* 1791 in Rouen † 1824 in Paris
Crayon lithograph on chine-collé. Size of sheet: 23.2 x 26.5 cm.
Literature: Delteil 52, III/V (with missing work in vertical crack made up in ink).
École nationale supériore des Beaux-Arts, 1997-1998, E.50.
Provenance: Collection of Ricardo de los Rios (1846 -1929) (Lugt 1693c).
Printed for the artist by Godefroy Engelmann I (1788 - Mulhouse - 1839).
Designed for the series of twelve lithographs entitled Etudes, de chevaux lithographiés. par Géricault, created by the artist soon after his return to France from England.
With the full title, but before the number.
£ 1000.-