Romanticism and Sentiment: Géricault and

Diploma Lecture Series 2013
Revolution to Romanticism: European Art and Culture 1750-1850
Romanticism and Sentiment: Géricault and Delacroix
Dr Chiara O'Reilly, University of Sydney
16/17 October 2013
Lecture summary:
This lecture considers the important role of sensation in French Romanticism. The presentation will
focus on close examination of key works by Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) and Eugène
Delacroix (1798-1863).
I will examine many of their most important paintings and seek to stress how they engaged with
ideas of movement, human emotion, colour and artistic expression.
Slide list:
1. Théodore Géricault, Head of a Lioness, oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris
2. Bertall, ‘Ingres and Delacroix Joust in front of the Institut de France’ Journal Pour Rire, 1849
3. Delacroix, Portrait of George Sand (unfinished) oil on canvas, c1838, Ordrupgaard Museum,
Copenhagen
4. Delacroix, Portrait of Frédéric Chopin, (unfinished) oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris
*5. Delacroix, The death of Sardanapalus , 1827 oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris
6. Géricault, The left hand of the artist, 1823, pencil and watercolour, Musée du Louvre, Paris
7. Ary Scheffer, The Death of Géricault, 1824, oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris
* 8. Géricault, An Officer of the Chasseurs Commanding a Charge, 1812, oil on canvas, Musée du
Louvre, Paris
9. Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) Vive L’empereur, 1891, oil on canvas, Art Gallery of NSW
10. Géricault, The Wounded Officer of the Imperial Guard Leaving the Battlefield, 1814 oil on
canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris
* 11. Géricault, Raft of the Medusa, Salon of 1819, oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris
12. Géricault, Riderless Horse Races 1817, (study) oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris
13. Géricault, Study for the raft of the Medusa, 1818-19, ink on paper, Private Collection, USA
14. Géricault, oil sketch for the Raft of the Mesdusa, Musée du Louvre , Paris
15. Géricault, oil sketch for the Raft of the Mesdusa, Musée du Louvre, Paris
16. Gericault, Eugène Delacroix: Posing for the Raft of the Medusa, Graphite, Collection Zurich
17. Géricault, The Monomaniac of Theft, c1821 -3, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
18. Géricault, The Monomaniac of Envy (The Hyena) c 1821-3, oil on canvas, Musée des BeauxArts, Lyon.
19. Antoine Étex, Géricault’s tomb, Père Lachaise, Paris.
20. Delacroix, Self-portrait as Ravenswood or Hamlet ca.1821 oil on canvas, Musée Eugène
Delacroix, Paris
21. Felix Nadar, Eugene Delacroix, 1858, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
*22. Delacroix, The Barque of Dante, 1822, oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris
23. Delacroix, The death of Sardanapalus , 1827, oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris 24/
Delacroix, study for the death of Sardanapalus, pastel and ink, Musée du Louvre, Paris
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* 25. Delacroix, Liberty leading the People (July 28th 1830), oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris
26. Delacroix, Moroccan Military Exercises. 1832, oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris
27. Eugène Delacroix, Angelica and the wounded Medoro, c1860 oil on canvas,
Purchased with assistance from the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales 1996
Reference:
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina, Theodore Géricault, New York, 2008
Baudelaire, Charles, ‘What is Romanticism?’ Salon of 1846 (widely reproduced)
Chenique, Bruno (Ed), Géricault au coeur de la création Romanticque Étudies pour le Radeau de
la Méduse, exh cat, Musée d'Art Roger-Quilliot De Clermont-Ferrand, 2012.
Delacroix, Eugène, The Journal of Eugène Delacroix, trans. London, 2001
Selected Letters 1813-1863, trans. New York, 2001
Fraser, Elisbeth A., Delacroix, Art and Patrimony in Post-Revolutionary France, Cambridge, 2004.
Honour, Hugh, Romanticism, London 1979
Vaughan, William, Romanticism and Art, London, 1994
Wright Beth S, The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix, Cambridge, 2001
Image sources used in the lecture include RMN photo - http://www.photo.rmn.fr/ and Artstor http://www.artstor.org/
Images:
Delacroix, The death of Sardanapalus , 1827. Oïl on canvas, 369 x 495 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris. Image source Artstor http://www.artstor.org/
Géricault, An Officer of the Chasseurs Commanding a Charge, 1812. Oil on canvas, 349 x 266 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris. Image source: RMN Photo
Géricault, Raft of the Medusa, Salon of 1819. Oil on canvas 491 x 716cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris. Image source Artstor http://www.artstor.org/
Delacroix, The Barque of Dante, 1822, Oil on canvas,189 x 246cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris. Image source: RMN Photo
Delacroix, Liberty leading the People (July 28th 1830). Oil on canvas, 260x 325cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris. Image source Artstor http://www.artstor.org/