print
- Museum number
- 1889,0608.423
- 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 buff chine collé
- Production date
- 1849-1862 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 188 millimetres (image)
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Width: 252 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For two other impressions, also from 'Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes', see 1880,0710.32 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
- 1889
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1889,0608.423