Théodore Géricault
Boxeurs
1817
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Théodore Géricault
Boxeurs
1817
Physical Qualities
Crayon and tusche lithograph, Sheet: 422 × 537 mm. (16 5/8 × 21 1/8 in.)
Image: 362 × 417 mm. (14 1/4 × 16 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Blanche Adler; Gift of Ralph and Mary Booth; Garrett Collection; Nelson and Juanita Greif Gutman Collection; Gift of Joanne W. Reinhoff; Gift of Geoffrey E. Stamm in Memory of Katherine Baden Stewart; Gift of Mrs. Harold Holmes Wrenn
Object Number
1993.217
Sotheby's, Sale 6496, 11/11/1993; ex collection: N.A. Hazard (L. 1979), cited in Delteil and noted in Lugt as having sold for 500 francs in the auction of Hazard's collection, expert Delteil, Paris, December 12-13, 1919; and F.E. Bliss (L. 265)
'19th and 20th Century Prints,' Sotheby's, New York, sale 6496, 11/27/1993, no. 594.
Jay FIsher, BMA, "A Decade of Print Acquisitions 1985-1995," 17 April - 23 June 1996.
Jay FIsher, BMA, "A Decade of Print Acquisitions 1985-1995," 17 April - 23 June 1996.
'In the Spotlight: BMA Collects,' BMA Today, July/August 1994, p. 12, ill.
Inscribed: FACE: in stone, LL, 'Lithog.ie de C Motte Rue des Marais f.t. St. G.n'; C, 'Boxeurs'; (graphite), LL corner, '169 MC 22233'; LR, enclosed in a circle, '59701'; there are four small graphite slashes at C of each edge; UR corner, enclosed in a circle, illegible graphite numbers(?). VERSO: 2 collectors marks in LRQ, 'NA' and 'BLISS'.
