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[[left margin]]Documents removed from Davis file[[/left margin]] JACQUES SELIGMANN & CO., INC. 5 EAST 57TH. STREET NEW YORK 22, N. Y. PAINTINGS WORKS OF ART CABLE ADDRESS: GLAENSTARK TELEPHONE: PLAZA-3-0250 GS Mr. Richard S. Davis Wayzata 5 Minnesota May 19, 1953 No. 8070 GERICAULT, Theodore (Rouen 1791 - Paris 1824) "THE BATTLE FIELD" (Battle of Maipu) (?) Watercolor: 12 3/8 x 20 3/8 Date: Circa 1818 -1819 Dying and wounded men and wounded horse lie in the left foreground. At right prisoners sit or stand in dejected attitudes around a broken down wagon. Upper left a group of lightly sketched military figures stand on a high cliff looking out over the valley and streams, to the blue hills in the background. Descending the cliffs a mounted Officer, probably a General, followed by his Staff, ride their horses swiftly to the plateau in the foreground. Collection: Percy Moore Turner - London Exhibited: Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, 1932, No. 87. George Charpentier Gallerie, Paris "Gericault", 193 (?) Maison Francaise, Oxford, 1950, No. 5 These indications of exhibitions were given by the executor of the P. M. Turner estate, but checking on the two latter ones, so far, has given no results. Complementary note: G. Clement in his book on "Gericault" refers to a drawing "The Battle of Maipu" which was a composition for the lithograph of the same name. (p. 336; No. 45)