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Théodore Géricault

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Watercolor of horses fighting in a stable yard, with a grey and a white horse rearing while a figure with a pole stands behin

Fighting Horses

c. 1820

Two ink and wash sheets of sketched male figures in dynamic poses, running, wrestling and reclining.

Sheet of Sketches (recto and verso)

1819

Brown ink and wash drawing of a turbaned man lying with his head against a horse's neck on a pale ground.

Man Clutching a Horse in Water, after Poussin's "Deluge" (recto)

c. 1816

Brown ink and wash sketch sheet with multiple studies of muscular male figures in dynamic poses, one reclining.

Sheet of Sketches (recto)

1819

Pen and brown ink sketch sheet with many nude male figures in varied action poses, some shaded with brown wash.

Sheet of Sketches (verso)

1819

Watercolor and drawing of a mounted officer directing cavalry soldiers and horses on a smoky battlefield.

General of the First Empire Giving his Cavalry Orders to Charge

n.d.

Pencil sketch of a coach pulled by four galloping horses, with two top-hatted men on the driver's seat.

Coach Drawn by Four Galloping Horses

1818/19

Pencil sketch of two horses galloping to the right, one overlapping the other, with studied legs and flowing manes.

Two Horses Galloping to the Right

1818/19

Pencil sketches of turbaned horsemen on rearing and galloping horses, with studies of hands and feet below.

Sketches of Oriental Horsemen

1813/14

Studies of a Draught Horse, a Blacksmith and a Young Woman

1813/14

Pencil sketch sheet with studies of horses and riders, a wooded landscape, and a cavalry battle scene.

Three Studies with Sketches of a Wooded Landscape and a Cavalry Battle

1813/14

Pencil sketch sheet with a timber shed, a landscape of trees, a dog head, a reclining dog, and several figure studies.

Sketches of A Shed, A Landscape, Dogs and Various Figures

1813/14

Pencil study sheet with horses in full figure, foal, heads, legs and hooves, with a faint brown wash.

Sketches of a Horse

1813/14

Pencil and ink sketch of horses, a groom, and a cavalry battle, with handwritten notes on aged paper.

Sketches of Horses, Groom Holding Horse, a Cavalry Battle

1813/14

Sheet of Sketches: Greyhounds; A Male and a Female Head in

1813/14

Pencil and wash sketches of trees, dogs and a pheasant in a wooded landscape, with arched panels at lower right.

Sketches of a Wooded Site, Dogs and Pheasants in Landscape

1813/14

Pencil sketch sheet of soldiers in helmets and cloaks, cavalry riders on horseback, and a pointing figure.

Sketches of Soldiers and Horses

1813/14

Pencil and brown wash sketches of horsemen and horses in battle, with a larger watercolor study in the upper right.

Four Sketches for a Cavalry Battle

c. 1814

Pencil sketch of mounted carabiniers in plumed helmets and studies of horse heads on a pale sheet.

Sketches of Mounted Carabiniers and Heads of Horses

1813/14

Pencil sketches of uniformed officers in tall hats and several horses in varied poses on tan paper.

Sketches of Russian Officers and Horses

1813/14

Pencil sketches on paper showing grids of horsemen, rearing horses and battle groups, with brown watercolor stains.

Eleven Compositional Sketches

1813/14

Pen and ink sketch of a boating party with a standing oarsman, surrounded by pencil studies of heads, hats and a tree.

Sketches of a Musical Boating Party and of a Woman Wearing a Tall Hat

1813/14

Pencil sketch sheet with studies of a turkey, duck, peacock and several fowl in varied poses.

Sketches of Fowl

1813/14

Pencil and brown wash sketches of cavalry battle scenes and horse studies arranged across one sheet.

Sketches of a Cavalry Battle and Studies of a Draught Horse

1813/14

Pencil and brown wash sketches of a chasseur on horseback, with rearing horse studies and faint head sketches.

Six Sketches of a Chasseur Beside His Horse

1813/14

Pencil sketches on aged paper showing a horse head with rider, a greyhound head, and faint preparatory studies.

Sketches of an Equestrian Battle and the Head of a Greyhound

1813/14

Brown wash and graphite sketches of cavalry battle groups with horses and riders, plus a study of a dog's forepaws.

Sketches of a Cavalry Battle and the Forepaws of a Dog

1813/14

Pen and brown ink sketch of a robed figure facing a violent scene of men struggling, one raising a dagger.

Assassination of Tiberius

1816-1817

Studies of lion, compositional group figure study, two caricature head studies

1812-1814

Three lion studies

1812-1814

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page showing a bowman in action and a horse with rider, drawn in loose outline.

Three studies of a bowman

1812-1814

Pencil sketch of two standing horses above a base, with a rider on a rearing horse and a kneeling figure below.

Two standing horses, Man riding a rearing horse

1812-1814

Pencil sketch of a seated stag with branching antlers in side view, with faint vertical strokes suggesting trees behind.

Seated Stag

1812-1814

Pencil sketch sheet with several loose studies of a lion, including a head, a crouching body, and a paw.

Lion studies

1812-1814

Seated lion, head of lioness

1812-1814

Pencil sketch page with three studies of horses, one rearing at lower left and a head study at right.

Three horse studies

1812-1814

Pencil sketch on cream paper of a horse's head and legs above, with a shaded study of a horse and rider below.

Horse Studies

1812-1814

Pencil sketch of a seated stag with antlers, a goat head study, and a hoof on cream paper.

Studies of a seated stag, a fawn, a goat head

1812-1814

Pencil sketch page with weapon studies, a helmeted rider with lance, a helmet detail, and a castle scene at upper right.

Weapon studies, compositional study of castle scene

1812-1814

Pencil sketchbook page with a seated figure, tassels, a horse head and a charging horseman in studies.

Tassels, seated figure from behind chair, thumbnail study of Charging Chasseur

1812-1814

Pencil sketches on a sketchbook page showing a lion's leg, paws and head in several studies.

Various studies of lion leg, paws and head

1812-1814

Pencil sketch of a man on a rearing horse with a separate study of a horse's hind legs above.

Man on a rearing horse, study of hind legs of horse

1812-1814

Pencil sketches on a page of a man beside a rearing horse, with several quick studies of horses in motion.

Six studies for man beside a rearing horse

1812-1814

Sketches of head and hind legs of a lion

1812-1814

Pencil sketch of a standing cavalier with handwritten ink notes and ruled staff lines on a page.

Standing cavalier, continuation of letter

1812-1814

Pencil sketch of nude men in combat poses, with faint studies of limbs and figures on a rotated sheet.

Studies of nude men in combat

1812-1814

Lion walking, face of lion

1812-1814

Pencil sketch of a seated lion with dense diagonal hatching on its body and a raised paw, on an aged page.

Seated lion

1812-1814

Pencil sketches of a nude man drawing a bow and arrow, with a faint horse and rider at lower right.

Three studies of a nude man with bow and arrow, standing cavalier

1812-1814

Seated lion, two lion head studies

1812-1814

Pencil sketch on sketchbook page with three studies of figure groups, including a standing man and horsemen.

Three compositional studies of figure group

1812-1814

Brown ink and wash drawing of a kneeling nude man and a seated woman reaching out, with faint figure studies behind.

Classical Nudes (recto); Classical Statuary (verso)

about 1814-1815

Figure studies

1812-1814

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page showing tree trunks and foliage drawn with loose hatched shading.

Landscape with a row of trees

1812-1814

Pencil sketch of three entwined figures standing on a mound, drawn on a cream page.

Group of three figures

1812-1814

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page showing two lions, one with a full mane at lower left and a muscular body with paws.

Pair of lions

1812-1814

Pencil sketch of horse tack studies including a bridle, fringed tassels, and a horse's leg and hoof.

Horse Studies and Tassels

1812-1814

Pencil sketch of a walking lion with a separate study of a lioness head above it, on a small page.

Lion walking, head of a lioness

1812-1814

Watercolor of a dark sailboat battling a stormy sea with a breaking white wave and a distant ship under a brown sky.

Sailboat on a Raging Sea

about 1818-1819

Pencil sketch of cavalry horses and riders in battle, drawn in loose overlapping lines on a small cream page.

Cavalry battle

1812-1814

Graphite sketch of a lion hunt with overlapping horses and riders, plus small architectural interior studies above.

Two compositional studies of a lion hunt

1812-1814

Pencil sketch of a cavalry skirmish with overlapping horses and riders on cream paper, a rider at upper right.

Cavalry skirmish with four horsemen

1812-1814

Pencil sketch of a lion head with a hatched mane on a sketchbook page, with faint outlines of a seated lion below.

Head on view of seated lion

1812-1814

Standing cavalier

1812-1814

Two pencil studies of a rearing horse on a cream sketchbook page with a green spine edge.

Two studies of a rearing horse

1812-1814

Pencil sketch of two lions on a sketchbook page, one looking up and one resting with its head lowered.

Two lion studies

1812-1814

Pencil sketch of a rearing horse above loose studies of horse legs and hooves on cream paper.

Compositional study, horse studies

1812-1814

Pencil sketchbook page with four studies of grouped figures in varied poses, some draped and seated.

Four compositional studies for a group of figures

1812-1814

Pencil sketch of a country house among trees with a fence, above studies of bushes and foliage on a pale page.

View of a Country House and Studies of Bushes and Foliage

1812-1814

Pencil sketch of a lion attacking a coiled snake, with a nude figure study drawn below.

Lion attacking a snake over nude figure study

1812-1814

Pencil sketch of a crouching lion at upper right with three lion head studies on a pale sheet.

Four lion studies

1812-1814

Horse head, view of a courtyard

1812-1814

Watercolor of a turbaned rider on a galloping black horse along a rocky shore under a dark stormy sky.

The Giaour

about 1822-1823

Horse head

1812-1814

Pencil sketch sheet of cavalry riders and rearing horses in overlapping studies, by Théodore Géricault.

Cavalry skirmish

1812-1814

Pencil and brown wash sketch of a shako-capped soldier on a crate, sabre raised, with fallen figures on a battlefield.

Caisson d'artillerie

1818

Study of Two Soldiers

1818-1819

Worn green sketchbook cover with a handwritten paper label in the upper right corner.

Sketchbook

1812-1814

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page showing hatched foliage and branch shapes spreading diagonally across the sheet.

Studies of clouds

1812-1814

Pencil sketch of a saddled horse walking right, with a faint second horse study at left on pale paper.

Sketch of a Horse

1817

Ink and wash drawing of a helmeted warrior with a shield and sword standing over a fallen figure against blue hills.

Venus and Cupid in a Landscape, after Annibale Carracci (recto); A Warrior Holding a Shield and Sword, Seen from the…

1816-17

Pencil sketch of a charioteer and horseman with horses and a dog on grey paper.

Charioteer and Horseman

early 19th century

Pen and ink sketch of six figure studies, including seated mother and child, reclining figure and standing nude.

Six Figure Studies, including four for "The Poor Italian Family"

1816-17

Pencil sketch of a man in a top hat riding a horse, with a study of a horse's head in the upper left.

Man on Horseback, and Study of Horse's Head

19th century

Brown wash drawing of turbaned horsemen in combat on galloping horses, with a distant city of domes and minarets behind them.

Combat of Oriental Horsemen

1822-23

Pencil drawing of a plumed-helmet soldier mounting a saddled horse, with mounted figures and a building in the background.

Soldier Mounting a Horse

1808 (?)

Grey wash drawing of two harnessed draft horses beside a sleeping driver, under a dark sky with a distant windmill.

Two Draft Horses with a Sleeping Driver

1820-22

Pencil sketch of soldiers and figures, with a cloaked crouching man at right and a helmeted soldier at left.

Fallen Soldiers

ca. 1818

Watercolor landscape with a blue mountain, a hillside village, a leaning tree, and fishermen hauling a boat on rocks.

Landscape with Fishermen

1818

Pen and ink study of nude figures in a rescue scene, with surrounding figure sketches and onlookers along the bottom edge.

The Rescue of a Drowned Man (recto); Study of a Horse (verso)

ca. 1817-18

Pencil sketch of a standing man in a top hat and long coat with a walking stick and medal, on pale paper.

Study for "Swiss Sentry at the Louvre"

c. 1819

Pencil sketch of a female figure holding a cross and a flaming heart, with cherubs on clouds above a globe.

The Virgin of the Sacred Heart

ca. 1820

Ink sketch on brown paper of nude survivors crowded on a raft at sea, reaching toward one another beneath a sail.

The Rescue of the Survivors of the Raft of the Medusa

c. 1818