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A graphite and watercolor wash drawing of seven draft horses pulling a ladened cart up a hill alongside some buildings.

A graphite drawing with grey, brown and blue watercolor washes of seven draft horses pulling a ladened cart round the side of some buildings and up a hill. The horses are coupled together in pairs, except for a single brown horse that leads the team. A man wearing a hat walks in front of the cart beside the last two horses.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.364
People
Théodore Géricault, French (Rouen 1791 - 1824 Paris)
Title
Coal Wagon Hauled by Seven Horses; verso: Sketches of horses and a cart
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Charrette de charbonniers attelée de sept chevaux grimpant une cote
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1821-1823
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298137

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and gray-blue and brown watercolor on cream modern laid paper; verso: graphite
Dimensions
17 x 27 cm (6 11/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: lower right, black ink: P.O.D. [encircled] [Lugt 2103b, mark of Pierre Olivier Dubaut]
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 1278 [illegible] sur de la / grandeur du paysage Italien [illegible] / [cut off] sur du [illegible] couleur no. (?) 60-24 (?)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Général Rollin. Mlle B..., sold [through Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 10, 1916, lot 16]. Pierre Olivier Dubaut, Paris, Lugt 2103b, sold [through Martin Birnbaum]; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1931, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.364
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Exposition Géricault, exh. cat., Hôtel Jean Charpentier (Paris, 1924), p. 63, cat. no. 155
  • Klaus Berger, Géricault: Drawings and Watercolors, H. Bittner and Company (New York, 1946), p. 34, cat. no. 52
  • Agnes Mongan, ed., One Hundred Master Drawings, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1949), p. 144, repr.
  • Klaus Berger, Géricault and His Work, University of Kansas Press (Lawrence, KS, 1955), pp. 84-85, no. 76
  • Antonio Del Guercio, Géricault, Il Club del Libro (Milan, Italy, 1963), p. 150, no. 82, repr.
  • Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault: Etude critique, documents, et catalogue raisonné, Wildenstein Institute (Paris, France, 1987 -1997), vol. 7, no. 2166, repr., repr. in color p. 83, also p. 13
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 182, repr.
  • Jean-Francois Méjanès, The Timeless Eye: Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, exh. cat., ed. Philip Rylands, Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice, 1999), under no. 91
  • Master Drawings, auct. cat., Flavia Ormond Fine Arts Limited (London, 2004), under no. 13
  • M. J. Andersen, "'Mutiny: Works by Géricault' Review: Equine Passions and Anxieties", The Wall Street Journal (September 10, 2018)
  • Old Master and British Drawings including Works from the Collection of Jean Bonna, auct. cat., Christie's, New York (New York, January 28, 2020), p. 96

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