M23244: Return from Russia
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M23244
- People
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Théodore Géricault, French (Rouen 1791 - 1824 Paris)
Printed by Charles Étienne Pierre Motte, French (1785 - 1836)
- Title
- Return from Russia
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Retour de Russie
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1818
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/263133
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Lithograph printed in black and ochre on off-white wove paper
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
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image: 44.3 x 36 cm (17 7/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
sheet: 50.4 × 39.4 cm (19 13/16 × 15 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower center, in stone: Retour de Russie
- inscription: lower right, in stone: Géricault / Au Dépot g. al de lithographie quai Voltaire No. 7
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Paul McCarron in association with Susan Schulman, New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1996
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- vi/vi
- Standard Reference Number
- Clément 12; Rouen 12; Delteil 13; Brugerolles E.10
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Virginia H. Deknatel, David Becker, Alan Dworsky, Mariot F. Solomon, and Daniel Bell, and with the Print Department Discretionary Fund, Director's Acquisition Funds
- Accession Year
- 1996
- Object Number
- M23244
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Clea Simon, "An Artist of His Times, and Ahead of Them", The Harvard Gazette ([e-journal], September 13, 2018), https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/09/mutiny-is-young-angry-and-taking-on-the-social-issues-of-yesterday-and-today/, accessed September 14, 2018
- "Géricault's Staying Power", Index Magazine ([e-journal], August 13, 2018), https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/article/gericault-s-staying-power, accessed August 15, 2018
- M. J. Andersen, "'Mutiny: Works by Géricault' Review: Equine Passions and Anxieties", The Wall Street Journal (September 10, 2018), repr.
Exhibition History
- Touchstone: 200 Years of Artists' Lithographs, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/15/1998 - 11/01/1998; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 07/17/1999 - 09/26/1999; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, 09/30/1999 - 12/10/2000; William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Museum, Chapel Hill, 02/04/2001 - 05/13/2001
- 32Q: 2200 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/04/2015 - 07/08/2015
- Mutiny: Works by Géricault, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/01/2018 - 01/06/2019
Verification Level
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