Théodore Géricault (French, 1791-1824)

Le Général Letellier sur son lit de mort

细节

Théodore Géricault (French, 1791-1824)
Le Général Letellier sur son lit de mort
oil on canvas
9½ x 12.5/8 in. (24.1 x 32 cm.)

来源

Collection Bro de Comères.

出版

C. Clément, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, September 1867, no. 122.
C. Clément, Géricault. Étude biographique et critique, Paris, 1879, no. 128.
H. Bro de Comères, Mémoires du général Bro, Paris, 1914, pp. 175-77.
Duc de Trévise, "Géricault, peintre d'actualités", La Revue de l'Art, May 1924, p. 302.
F. H. Lem, "Géricault portraitiste", L'Arte, June-July 1963, p. 82-3, no. 10.
L. Eitner, Supplément, Paris, 1973, no. 128, p. 455.
P. Grunchec, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Géricault, Paris, 1978, no. 158 (illustrated).
L. Eitner, Géricault. His life and work, London, 1983, pp. 157-158, 342, no. 69.
P. Grunchec, Catalogue of the exhibition Master Drawings by Géricault, Washington D.C., 1985, no. 62a, p. 129.
Géricault, Kamakura, Kyoto, Fukuoka, 1987-1988, p. 41, fig. E.
Catalogue of the exhibition Géricault, Grand-Palais, Paris, 1991, no. 130 (illustrated fig. 192, p. 118).
G. Bazin, Théodore Géricault. Étude critique, documents et catalogue raisonné, vol. V, Paris, 1992, no. 1749 (illustrated p. 250).

展览

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Géricault, 1924, no. 236.
Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Géricault, 1953, no. 89.
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Géricault, 10 October 1991-6 January 1992, no. 130.

拍品专文

This dramatic portrait of the General Letellier was painted by Géricault in his atelier, after a drawing quickly sketched d'après nature (Bazin 1750). It has a very distinguished provenance, having been in the collection of the Général Bro de Comères until the 1950s.