Prancing Horse

Provenance

Possibly Eugène Delacroix, Paris [according to Paris 1924 exh. cat. and Paris 1937 exh. cat.]. Probably M. Foynard, Paris [according to letter from Richard Goetz, December 14, 1937, in curatorial file for Champmartin, 1937.502, asserting that he acquired all the Géricaults he purchased in this period from Monsieur Foynard before World War I]; Richard Goetz, Paris, by 1922; sold with his sequestered property Hotel Drouot, Paris, February 23, 1922, no. 150. Édouard Napoléon César Edmond Mortier, duc de Trévise (died 1946), Paris, by 1924 until at least 1937 [see Paris 1924 exh. cat. and Paris 1937 exh. cat.]; sold by him, probably with Robert Lebel as agent, to Richard Goetz, New York [see letter from Eric Turquin, February 7, 2002, in curatorial file]. J. B. Neumann, New York by 1944; sold to the Art Institute, 1944.

Prancing Horse

Follower of Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

1808–12

Accession Number

51541

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

26.4 × 39.5 cm (10 3/8 × 15 1/2 in.); Framed: 46.4 × 59.1 × 7.3 cm (18 1/4 × 23 1/4 × 2 7/8 in.)

Classification

oil on canvas

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection