Le Giaour (The Infidel)

1823

Théodore Gericault

Artist, French, 1791 - 1824

Eugène Louis Lami

Artist, French, 1800 - 1890

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 25.4 x 34.2 cm (10 x 13 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1999.111.20

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Delteil, no. 95, State ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Frank Anderson Trapp [1922-2005], Pittsburgh; gift to NGA, 1999.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1988

  • Delacroix and the Romantic Image: Oriental Themes, Wild Beasts, and the Hunt, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA, 1988, no cat. no., illustrated p. 43.

Bibliography

1906

  • Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.

Inscriptions

lower left below image: Géricault et Eug. Lami. 1823; across upper center: LE GIAOUR,; lower right below image: Y. Lith. de Villain; across lower center: ....Cet ennemi est là qui le contemple....son front est aussi sombre que celui qui est couvert / des embres du trépas.......; lower right below image: Chez Gihaut fréres éditeurs; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 50+ / 2 état; by later hand, lower left in graphite: RPN 4172; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 971 77

Wikidata ID

Q75429461

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