Details
- Artist Name: Théodore or Imitator Géricault (French, 1791-1824)
- Title: Head of a Horse
- Date: 1808-1810 or 1820s
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 23-7/8 x 19-1/2 in. (60.7 x 49.5 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, Gift of Mr. Mike Nichols
- Accession Number: P.1978.4
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum
Object Information
Madame M. Georges Dortu, Le Vesinet, Paris.
[Galerie Hector Brame, Paris by 1957].
Pierre Dubaut, Paris, by 1959.
(sale, London, Sotheby’s, 23 June 1965, lot 151, to);
[Paul Kantor].
[A.C. Cooper, London by 1974].
Mike Nichols, New York, gift December 1978 to;
Norton Simon Museum.
Théodore Géricault 1791-1824. Proceeds in Aid of the Tate Gallery's Rodin Group Appeal
- London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., 1952-10 to 1952-11
Théodore Géricault 1791-1824
- Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, 1953-08-30 to 1953-11-08
Rembrandt to Picasso
- Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, The Rhodes National Gallery, 1957-07-16 to 1957-09
Under the Influence: Art-Inspired Art
- Norton Simon Museum, 2008-10-17 to 2009-03-02
- Eitner, Lorenz, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, p. 125
- Gruchec, Philippe, Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français, pp. 397-398
- Sotheby & Co., Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, 1965, p. 102
- Thuillier, Jacques and Philippe Grunchec, L'Opera completa di Gericault, 1978, p. 87
- Thuillier, Jacques and Philippe Grunchec, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Gericault, 1978, p. 87
- Grunchec, Philippe, Géricault: dessins et acquarelles de chevaux, 1982, p. 6
- Grunchec, Philippe, Géricault's Horses: Drawings and Watercolors, 1984, p. 6
- Brettell, Richard R. and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum, volume 1, 2006,
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