ID: 700000196 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000196	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct (oil painting (visual work); Théodore Géricault (French, 1791-1824); 1818; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 1989.183 ; )

Note: This work is one of a projected set of four monumental landscapes representing the times of day that Gericault painted in his Paris studio. (Only three were completed.) Conceived as a decorative ensemble, the paintings fuse souvenirs of ruins in the Italian countryside, which the artist had visited in 1816 and 1817, with the grand manner exemplified by past masters Nicolas Poussin and Joseph Vernet. The stormy sky and turbulent mood of this picture exemplify notions of the Sublime and the aesthetic of the emerging Romantic movement.

Titles:

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct (preferred,C,U,D,RP,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

oil painting (visual work) [300033799] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

European art

Creation Date: 1818

Creator Display:

Théodore Géricault (French, 1791-1824) [preferred,VP]

painter Géricault, Théodore (French painter and draftsman, 1791-1824) [500115562]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1989.183

Credit Line: Purchase, Gift of James A. Moffett 2nd, in memory of George M. Moffett, by exchange, 1989

Address Note: On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 802

Display Materials: oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: 250.2 x 219.7 cm (98 1/2 x 86 1/2 inches)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Romantic (modern European styles) [300172863] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <modern European styles and movements>)

General Subject:

landscapes (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	ruin [300008057]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by condition>) (AAT)

	aqueduct [300006165]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, hydraulic structures, <hydraulic structures by function>, water distribution structures) (AAT)

	evening [300343633]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), scientific concepts, physical sciences concepts, earth sciences concepts, times of day) (AAT)

Provenance: René Petit-Le Roy, Paris (until 1903; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 30, 1903, no. 23, as "Paysage avec rochers et constructions," together with no. 22 for Fr 1,205 to Lavillé); Monsieur Lavillé; comte de Saint-Léon, château de Jeurre (until 1937); [Nat Leeb, Paris, 1937–49; sold to Ujlaky]; [Alexandre Ujlaky, Paris, from 1949]; [Paul Brame and César de Hauke, Paris, 1952–54; sold to Chrysler]; Walter P. Chrysler Jr., New York (1954–d. 1988; on loan to The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, from 1971; his estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, June 1, 1989, no. 110; sold to MMA)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 29 November 2011

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 29 November 2011

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 29 November 2011