DrawingsFrench19th century

Parents Mourning Over Their Dead Son

1819

Artists

Théodore GéricaultArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash, and blue-green watercolor over graphite on white wove paper

Culture

French

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

16.5 x 12.4 cm (6 1/2 x 4 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Pierre-Olivier Dubaut, Paris, sold [through Martin Birnbaum]; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, 1929, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943

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