Théodore Géricault from Private Collections

12 . Studies after Rubens’s “Fall of the Damned”

1818 Graphite on paper 8 ⅛ × 11 ¼ inches ( 20 . 5 × 28 . 5 cm)

Inscribed upper left: Extrait d’un calepin de Géricault, donné à Forster par Devéria, 1825 [Extracted from a small sketchbook by Géricault, given to Forster by Devéria, 1825 ] Collection stamp lower right: Lugt 2103 a (Collection Pierre Olivier Dubaut) provenance [Achille or Eugène] Deveria, by 1825 ; gift from Deveria to [probably François] Forster (per inscription); Pierre Olivier Dubaut, Paris; sale, Sotheby’s London, November 25 , 1987 . l i terature Lorenz Eitner, “Dessins de Géricault d’après Rubens: la genèse du Radeau de la Méduse,” Revue de l’art , no. 14 , 1971 , fig. 6 , p. 53 ; Lorenz Eitner, Géricault , exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, et al., 1971 , p. 124 (illus.); Rhode Island School of Design, Rubenism, exh. cat., Providence, 1975 , p. 235 , 237 , 238 ; Grunchec 1985 , under no. 74 ; Metropolitan Museum of Art 2000 , fig. 21 under no. 29 ; Bazin, vol. VI, no. 1942 .

Private Collection

This work is one of two known drawings that Géricault made after Rubens’s Fall of the Damned (sometimes called The Little La st Judgement) . Géricault would not have had access to the painting, and as Eitner noted ( 1971 ), the drawings are freehand copies of figure groups in an engraving by Jonas Suyderhoef after Rubens’s painting (fig. 10 ). The Stanford sheet (fig.

Fig. 10 Jonas Suyderhoef (Dutch, 1613 – 1686 ), Fall of the Damned, or Fall of the Rebel Angels , engraving after Peter Paul Rubens, 1642 Fig. 11 The Fall of the Rebel Angels , c. 1818 , Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University ( 1967 . 50 )