print
- Museum number
- 1880,0710.32
- Title
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Object: Course de chevaux
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Series: Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes
- Description
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Plate 30: in the foreground, Roman slaves restraining horses before their release into the hippodrome, with classical buildings and crowds visible in the background; after Théodore Géricault
Lithograph on chine collé
- Production date
- 1849-1862 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 189 millimetres (image size)
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Width: 254 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For two other impressions of this print, also from 'Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes', see 1889,0608.423 and 1936,0302.14.31 (bound in one of three volumes). For further information on the series, including dating, see Curator’s Comment on 1936,0302.14.1.
The painting 'Course de chevaux libres à Rome' is in the Louvre (R.F. 2042).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Acquisition notes
- 1880,0710.1 to 250 constitute a series of plates for 'Les artistes anciens et modernes' from 1842-60.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,0710.32