Lithographic printing matrix for “Lion Devouring a Horse”
1820-1821
Artists
Dimensions
27.4 × 37 × 0.5 cm (10 13/16 × 14 9/16 × 3/16 in.)
Provenance
M. de Musigny, sold [through his sale, commissaire-priseur Bonnefons de la Vialle, Paris, March 8, 1845, lot 61]. Possibly François-Martial Marcille, Paris, by descent; to Camille Constantin Marcille (Lugt 605a), his son, Paris and Oisème, 1856, sold [through his sale, Hôtel Drouot, commissaire-priseur Charles Pillet, March 6-9, 1876, lot 84]; to M. Gerard. [Maurice Gobin, Paris, by 1935]. [1] Philip Hofer, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1960 [1] Gobin includes the stone in the 1935 exhibition "Dessins, aquarelles & gouaches par Gericault."
Related Artworks
View MoreGraphite on off-white laid paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchGray ink and black and pink wash on white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white modern laid paper, laid down overall and counterlined
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on off-white laid paper, laid down
19th centuryFrenchBlack, red and white chalk on blue wove paper, discolored to brown
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and black crayon on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black crayon
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on beige laid paper, laid down to off-white wove paper (platemark on secondary support)
19th centuryFrenchConté crayon and metallic silver paint on beige laid paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor
19th centuryFrench