Théodore Géricault
Étude de femme nue pour le Trio érotique (Study of a Female Nude for the Erotic Trio) [recto]; The Combat of Hercules and Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons and [reversed underlying sketch] Woman on the Ground and Woman in Half Length [verso]

Étude de femme nue pour le Trio érotique (Study of a Female Nude for the Erotic Trio) [recto]; The Combat of Hercules and Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons and [reversed underlying sketch] Woman on the Ground and Woman in Half Length [verso]

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Artist Théodore Géricault (French, 1791–1824)French, 1791–1824

CultureFrench

Titles

Étude de femme nue pour le Trio érotique (Study of a Female Nude for the Erotic Trio) [recto]; The Combat of Hercules and Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons and [reversed underlying sketch] Woman on the Ground and Woman in Half Length [verso]

Date1816–1817

MediumBlack chalk on wove paper

DimensionsSheet (including mount): 5 1/16 × 8 1/8 in. (12.8 × 20.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Dennis Roach at "One Great Night in November, 2016"

Object number2016.212.A,.B

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenancePrivate collection, France; [Jean François Heim Fine Arts, Paris, by 2016]; purchased by MFAH, 2016.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: [none]
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, bottom left corner: R / [cursive, inverted]
Verso of panel: Inscribed in paint, upper center: 4-4-56 / H OSS / TEBD

Recto: [none]
Verso: [none]

Recto: [none]
Verso of frame: paper label in ink, upper right: Theodore / GERICAULT / Etude de femme nue / (recto)
Verso of frame: paper label in ink, upper right: Le combat d'Hercule / (verso)
Verso of frame: paper label in ink, upper right: Jean-François HEIM

Catalogue raisonnéBazin (this drawing not known); Chenique (forthcoming)

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