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Three Lovers Entwined
(Jean-Louis-Théodore Géricault)

Description

This small but exquisite erotic painting was a work painted for the private pleasure of the artist, who had been fascinated with erotic subjects since his trip to italy, where he drew several scenes portraying the sexual act in semi-mythological settings.

Type
Oil on canvas
Exhibited

Matthiesen Gallery & Stair Sainty Matthiesen, ’50 paintings’, 1993

Where is It?
Acquired by the J.Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica, CA.
Historical Period
Romanticism - 1810-1870
Subject
Genre or Daily Life
School
French
Catalogue
1993-Fifty Paintings 1535 - 1825.
To celebrate Ten Years of Collaboration between The Matthiesen Gallery, London, and Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York. 216 pages, 50 colour plates, numerous black and white text illustrations £20 or $32 inc. p.& p.

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Price band
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