A Horse-Drawn Wagon, Title Page for Various Subjects Drawn from Life and on Stone (The English Suite)
Medium
Bi-fold portfolio cover with pen-lithographed title page in black on buff wove paper
Dimensions
37.6 × 47.6 cm (14 13/16 × 18 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
121990
Art Historical Context
Step into the dynamic world of early 19th-century lithography with Théodore Géricault's *A Horse-Drawn Wagon, Title Page for Various Subjects Drawn from Life and on Stone (The English Suite)*, created in 1821 This bi-fold portfolio cover, featuring a pen-lithographed page in stark black on buff wove paper (37.6 × 47.6 cm), captures a rugged horse-drawn wagon in motion—a nod to everyday English life. Géricault, the French Romantic master behind the dramatic *Raft of the Medusa* (1819), produced this as the gateway to his innovative *English Suite*, a series of 10 lithographs sketched directly f...
About the Artist
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault · 1791–1824
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) was born into a prosperous bourgeois family in Rouen, France, the son of a lawyer who managed the family tobacco business. After moving to Paris around 1797, his artistic talent emerged early, nurtured in a circle that included his maternal uncle Jean-Baptiste Caruel and art dealer Jean-Louis Laneuville. Géricault began formal training in 1808 under ...