A Horse Being Eaten by a Lion
Medium
Lithograph; fourth state of four
Dimensions
sheet: 10 1/16 x 14 11/16 in. (25.5 x 37.3 cm) plate: 8 3/16 x 10 3/8 in. (20.8 x 26.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Joseph Verner Reed, 1950
Accession Number
50.576.100
Tags
About the Artist
Théodore Gericault|François de Villain · 1791–1824
Théodore Géricault, born Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault on September 26, 1791, in Rouen, France, into a prosperous family—his father a lawyer turned tobacco merchant and his mother from a line of growers—moved to Paris around 1797. Displaying early artistic promise, recognized by painter Jean-Louis Laneuville, he began formal training in 1808 under Carle Vernet, mastering English sporting art...