In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
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 (1483-1520), Michelangelo (1475-1564), and Poussin.
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Anonymous, Spanish, School of Seville, 17th century — Two Do
Anonymous, Italian, 17th or 18th century|André Lebrun — Prop
Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century — Man Seat
Frederic, Lord Leighton|Romain Cazes — Study in Draperies
William Blake (British, 1757–1827) — Sketch for "The Thought
Domenico Mondo — Pietà (recto); Sketches of Kneeling Figures
Antoine Watteau — Reclining Nude Figure (recto); unidentifia
Giovanni Larciani ("Master of the Kress Landscapes") — The D
Pierre Alexandre Wille (French, 1748–1837) — A Sleeping Shep
Gaetano Gandolfi — Seated Prophet
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo — Two Seated Satyrs and a Child Sa
Giovanni Angelo Canini — Unidentified Subject: Reclining Nu
