LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: Gericault

Title: Study of a Model Artist/Maker: Théodore Géricault (French, 1791 - 1824) Culture: French Place: France (Place created) Date: about 1818 - 1819 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 47 × 38.7 cm (18 1/2 × 15 1/4 in.) Department: Paintings Classification: Paintings Object Type: Painting Object Number: 85.PA.407 This portrait was made as a study for Théodore Géricault's most famous painting, The Raft of the Medusa, made in 1819 and now in the Louvre. In a clear case of ineptitude, the ship named Medusa foundered in the sea off the coast of Africa in 1816. A raft with 140 passengers drifted for thirteen days before being rescued; only fifteen people survived. In preparation for his disturbing and controversial painting of the incident, Géricault made many studies from life, like this one, to achieve a sense of realism and specificity. The sitter wears a shirt similar to those worn by the survivors of the Medusa. Géricault captured the man's character with great sympathy and spontaneity; his watery eyes do not focus on anything outside the canvas but appear to express an internal torment. Shades of brown, gray, and beige blend together to imitate his dark complexion. Dabs of white and beige paint are used to indicate reflective light in his eyes and on the tip of his nose, his bottom lip, and his chin. Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/779/theodore-gericault-study-of-a-model-french-about-1818-1819

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct Artist: Théodore Gericault (French, Rouen 1791–1824 Paris) Date: 1818 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 98 1/2 x 86 1/2 in. (250.2 x 219.7 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Purchase, Gift of James A. Moffett 2nd, in memory of George M. Moffett, by exchange, 1989 Accession Number: 1989.183 Label: This work is one of a projected set of four monumental landscapes representing the times of day that Gericault painted in his Paris studio. (Only three were completed.) Conceived as a decorative ensemble, the paintings fuse souvenirs of ruins in the Italian countryside, which the artist had visited in 1816 and 1817, with the grand manner exemplified by past masters Nicolas Poussin and Joseph Vernet. The stormy sky and turbulent mood of this picture exemplify notions of the Sublime and the aesthetic of the emerging Romantic movement. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/436455

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct Artist: Théodore Gericault (French, Rouen 1791–1824 Paris) Date: 1818 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 98 1/2 x 86 1/2 in. (250.2 x 219.7 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Purchase, Gift of James A. Moffett 2nd, in memory of George M. Moffett, by exchange, 1989 Accession Number: 1989.183 Label: This work is one of a projected set of four monumental landscapes representing the times of day that Gericault painted in his Paris studio. (Only three were completed.) Conceived as a decorative ensemble, the paintings fuse souvenirs of ruins in the Italian countryside, which the artist had visited in 1816 and 1817, with the grand manner exemplified by past masters Nicolas Poussin and Joseph Vernet. The stormy sky and turbulent mood of this picture exemplify notions of the Sublime and the aesthetic of the emerging Romantic movement. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/436455

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct Artist: Théodore Gericault (French, Rouen 1791–1824 Paris) Date: 1818 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 98 1/2 x 86 1/2 in. (250.2 x 219.7 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Purchase, Gift of James A. Moffett 2nd, in memory of George M. Moffett, by exchange, 1989 Accession Number: 1989.183 Label: This work is one of a projected set of four monumental landscapes representing the times of day that Gericault painted in his Paris studio. (Only three were completed.) Conceived as a decorative ensemble, the paintings fuse souvenirs of ruins in the Italian countryside, which the artist had visited in 1816 and 1817, with the grand manner exemplified by past masters Nicolas Poussin and Joseph Vernet. The stormy sky and turbulent mood of this picture exemplify notions of the Sublime and the aesthetic of the emerging Romantic movement. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/436455

Alfred Dedreux (1810–1860) as a Child Artist: Théodore Gericault (French, Rouen 1791–1824 Paris) Date: ca. 1819–20 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 18 x 15 in. (45.7 x 38.1 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund, 1941 Accession Number: 41.17 Gallery Label: The subject of this portrait is the nephew of Gericault’s friend the painter Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy. This canvas is one of a small group of drawings and paintings (in various collections) that depict the eight- or nine-year-old Alfred and his younger sister, Elisabeth, with remarkable self-possession and grace for their age. Alfred became a painter and, like Gericault, was enamored of horses. Eugène Delacroix, who had studied with Gericault, later owned this painting. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/436454

Alfred Dedreux (1810–1860) as a Child Artist: Théodore Gericault (French, Rouen 1791–1824 Paris) Date: ca. 1819–20 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 18 x 15 in. (45.7 x 38.1 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund, 1941 Accession Number: 41.17 Gallery Label: The subject of this portrait is the nephew of Gericault’s friend the painter Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy. This canvas is one of a small group of drawings and paintings (in various collections) that depict the eight- or nine-year-old Alfred and his younger sister, Elisabeth, with remarkable self-possession and grace for their age. Alfred became a painter and, like Gericault, was enamored of horses. Eugène Delacroix, who had studied with Gericault, later owned this painting. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/436454