Man Clutching a Horse in Water, after Poussin's "Deluge" (recto); Compositional Study? (possibly for "Poussin's Deluge") (verso)
c. 1816
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite
- Dimensions
- 18 × 26.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-214429
Géricault's drawing of a man clutching the mane of a horse as they struggle together to stay afloat is a direct copy of a detail from one of Nicolas Poussin's (1594-1665) most celebrated paintings, The Deluge, or Winter (see photo). Small in scale but monumental in feeling, the sheet exemplifies the artist's "antique manner" of drawing, which he began to develop around 1815. This style, with its heavy contour lines and broad washes, developed in tandem with Géricault's renewed interest in copying works of art from the past, such as prints after ancient sculpture and works by Raphael (1483-152…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2008.378
Registry history
- c. 1816 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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