Théodore Géricault
Three Studies for Heads of Naval Officers (Self-Portraits) Preparatory Drawing for the “Mutiny”
1812-1822
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Théodore Géricault
Three Studies for Heads of Naval Officers (Self-Portraits) Preparatory Drawing for the “Mutiny”
1812-1822
Physical Qualities
Pen and iron gall ink over black crayon, Sheet: 212 × 263 mm. (8 3/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Fanny B. Thalheimer Memorial Fund
Object Number
1977.44
At lower center, the largest head of a man in profile, wearing a cap. At upper left, a man's head full-face looking upward, also wearing a bandana or cap. Upper center the third head is three-quarter view, looking downward, no cap. All have beards and mustaches.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1977; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London; Palais Galliera, Dec. 7, 1976, no. 4; Galerie Brame; César de Hauke (1900-1965), Paris, 1953; Boudot-Lamotte, Paris.
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
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The Raft of the Medusa
Musée d'art Roger-Quilliot de Clermont-Ferrand,edited by Bruno Chenique, “Géricault / au coeur de la création romantique / études pour le radeau de la méduse,” Nicolas Chaudu, 2012, pp. 182, fig. 10
Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, p. 240-42, ill.
Baltimore Museum of Art Calendar (April 1978), cover. Ted Rose, Discovering Drawing, Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 1995, p. 133. Lorenz Eitner, Géricault's Raft of the Medusa, New York: Praeger, 1972, p. 152, no. 31.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 25, ill
Inscribed: RECTO: LL, graphite, 'Gericault'.
