Head of a Man [recto]
Artist, French, 1791 - 1824

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink over traces of graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 16.3 x 13.1 cm (6 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
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Accession
1995.47.42.a
Associated Artworks

Study of a Man [verso]
Théodore Gericault
1791
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Wildenstein and Co., London), by 1947;[1] Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA, by 1989; gift to NGA, 1995.
[1] See French XIX Century Drawings. Wildenstein and Co., New York, 1947-48, no. 25.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1947
French XIX Century Drawings. Wildenstein and Co., New York, 1947-48, no. 25.
1953
The French Impressionists. Vancouver Art Gallery, 1953, no. 27 (repr).
1955
Timeless Master Drawings. Wildenstein and Co., New York, 1955, no. 140.
1956
The Art of Drawing. XVIth to XIXth Centuries. Wildenstein and Co., London, 1956, no. 91.
1960
Drawings by the Masters. Wildenstein nd Co., london, 1960, no. 72.
2012
Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 6.
Bibliography
1987
Bazin, Germain. Théodore Géricault. Étude Critique, Documents et Catalohue Raisonné. 3 vols. Paris, 1989: III: 192, no. 839 (repro.).
Wikidata ID
Q64633067