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Maker(s):Géricault, Théodore
Culture:French (1791 - 1824)
Title:Recto Mounted Hussar, Men Wrestling, Horses; Verso Horse's Forelegs
Date Made:ca. 1817-1819
Type:Drawing
Materials:Pen and brown (iron gall) ink over graphite on cream laid paper
Place Made:France
Measurements:sheet: 11.43 cm x 26.035 cm; 4 1/2 in x 10 1/4 in
Narrative Inscription:  undated, signed in brown ink at lower right: T. Géricault
Accession Number:  SC 1941.6.1
Credit Line:Purchased with the Sarah J. Mather Fund
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
1941_6_1.jpg

Description:
military/war; animal; man; game; male; portrait

Label Text:
Label text for ARH 240 French and Italian Drawings Renaissance through Romanticism, written by Carol Kaminsky:

From his first major work, The Charging Hussar, exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1812, Géricault was fascinated by horses throughout his tragically short career. He rode actively and made countless studies of horses and cavalrymen, the Hussars. Here these equine studies intertwine with men wrestling and anatomical studies of male legs—musings rather than a preparation for a larger, more finished work.

Tags:
men; animals; nudes

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