Le Giaour (The Infidel), 1820

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Medium

lithograph on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 14.8 x 21.2 cm (5 13/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

sheet: 27.5 x 36.1 cm (10 13/16 x 14 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Delteil, no. 71, State ii/iii

Accession Number

1994.58.9

Artists / Makers

Théodore Gericault (artist) French, 1791 - 1824

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Géricault.; lower right in plate: chez Gihaut b.ard des Italiens No. 5; lower center in plate: Le Giaour; lower right in plate: I. lith. de Villain

Provenance

Paul Prouté, Paris; purchased 1994 by NGA.

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul

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.