Literature

Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 23

Provenance

René Petit-Le Roy, Paris (until 1903)
sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 30, 1903, no. 23, together with no. 22 to Lavillé
Monsieur Lavillé
?comte de Saint-Léon, château de Jeurre (until 1937)
?with Nat Leeb, Paris, 1937–49, sold to Ujlaky
?with Alexandre Ujlaky, Paris, from 1949
with Paul Brame and César de Hauke, Paris, 1952–54, sold to Chrysler
Walter P. Chrysler Jr., New York (1954–d. 1988)
on loan to The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, from 1971
his estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, June 1, 1989, no. 110, sold to MMA

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1989.183

Other works by Théodore Géricault

A Cavalry Officer of the Imperial Guard Charging
1812

The Pottery Oven
c. 1821

Horsewoman

Study of Severed Limbs
1818

The Riderless Racers at Rome
1817