Cheval devoré par un lion (Lion Devouring a Horse)
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault, French, 1791 - 1824
1823
Lithograph on wove paper
Image: 7 1/8 × 9 7/16 in. (18.1 × 23.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 15 13/16 in. (28.6 × 40.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.952.35.3
Printer
Francois Le Villain
Publisher
Gihaut Frères, Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in stone, lower left: "Géricault del.", Lith: de Villain" and "chez Gihaut, bard des Italiens No.5"
Course History
GERM 10, Germany and the East, Yuliya Komska, Winter 2013
ARTH 49, European Art in the Age of Revolution (1750-1850), Katie Hornstein, Fall 2013
ANTH 7.5, Animals and Humans: A Beastly Experiment in Ethics, Theory & Writing, Laura Ogden, Winter 2015
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2020
Exhibition History
19th Century French Prints, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 3-23, 1973.
19th Century Prints from the Permanent Colection, Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 12-March 25, 1979.
Curator's Choice: Dartmouth Permanent Collection, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 29, 1976-January 16, 1977.
Old Master Prints from the Dartmouth Collection, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-April 10, 1988.
Prints from the Hood Museum Collection, inaugural exhibition, Friends Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1, 1985-January 12, 1986.
The Napoleonic Era, Strauss and Barrows Galleries and Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 29-September 3, 1979.
Provenance
Charles D. Childs, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 1952.
Catalogue Raisonne
Clement 68; Delteil 67; Grunchee 68; Rouen 68
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