Study for Wounded Cuirassier

Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault (French, 1791–1824)

Medium/TechniqueOil on panel

Dimensions38.2 x 32.1 cm (15 1/16 x 12 5/8 in.)

Credit LineGift of Samuel Dennis Warren

Accession number88.724

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ClassificationsPaintings

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ProvenancePurchased in Paris by Thomas Robinson, Providence, RI [see note 1]; November 16-18, 1886, Robinson sale, Moore's Art Gallery, New York, lot 201, sold to Seth Morton Vose (b. 1831 - d. 1910), Providence and Boston [see note 2]; 1886, sold by Vose to Samuel Dennis Warren (b. 1817 - d. 1888), Boston, MA; 1888, gift of Warren to the MFA. (Accession date: January 18, 1888)

NOTES:
[1] Between the 1850s and 1880s, Robinson traveled to France and purchased paintings as Seth Morton Vose's agent.

[2] Vose lent this to the "Loan Exhibition of Paintings in aid of the First Light Infantry" (Providence, RI, 1886), cat. no. 10, as "Study."