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Collection Online as of December 6, 2023

Assassination of Tiberius

1816–1817

Théodore Géricault

(French, 1791–1824)

France, 19th century

Pen and brown ink

Support: Off-white laid paper

Sheet: 14.2 x 19.3 cm (5 9/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz 2013.250

Catalogue raisonné: Bazin vol. 2, no. 517

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

inscribed on verso, diagonally oriented from top left to bottom right, in graphite,: [illegible]; lower right, in graphite: E; lower left, in graphite: 41/29

Provenance
?-1985
(Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, sold to Helen and Albert Borowitz, Cleveland, OH)
1985-2013
Helen and Albert Borowitz, Cleveland, Ohio, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
2013-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London. Nineteenth Century French Drawings: 20 June-20 July 1984. Exh. Cat. London: Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, 1984. Mentioned: p. 5, no. 9; Reproduced: pl. 8
Grunchec, Philippe. Master Drawings by Géricault. Washington, D.C.: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1985. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 67, no. 21b
Bazin, Germain. Théodore Géricault: étude critique, documents et catalogue raisonné, vol. 2. Paris: Bibliothèque des arts, 1987. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 318, 500-01, no. 517
Exhibition history

Nineteenth Century French Drawings. Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox (June 20-July 20, 1984).

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