Lot 102: Henri Joseph de Forestier (Santo Domingo 1787-1872 Paris)

Henri Joseph de Forestier (Santo Domingo 1787-1872 Paris)
A sketch of classical figures in a landscape
oil on paper laid down on canvas
5 5/8 x 8 in. (14.3 x 20.3 cm.)

Paris, Hôtel Jean Charpentier, Expositions d'oeuvres de Géricault, 24 April-16 May 1924, no 63, as 'Géricault'.

C. Clément, 'Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Géricault - Peintures', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XXIII, September 1867, p. 290, no. 126, as 'Géricault'.
C. Clément, Géricault, étude biographique et critique avec le catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre du maître, Paris, 1879, p. 309, no. 132, as 'Géricault'.
J. Thuillier, et al., Tout l'oeuvre peint de Géricault, Paris, 1978, p. 137-8, no. A100, under 'Attributed to Géricault' but identified with a drawing by Forestier.
P. Grunchec, 'Géricault, problèmes de méthode', Revue de l'Art, no. 43, 1979, pp. 48, 58, note 120, fig. 27, as 'Forestier'.
G. Bazin, Théodore Géricault: étude critique, documents et catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1987, II, pp. 321, 507-08, no. 538, as 'Géricault'.

Gifted by the artist to General Bro, thence by descent to
Colonel Olivier Bro de Commères, by 1867, and by descent to
Madame Pic, Paris.

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