Acht kleine platen
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
400; 95; 160; 293
About this artwork
height 95 mm x width 160 mm
Art Historical Context
**Acht kleine platen (Eight Small Plates)** *Théodore Gault, 1823, Lithography, 95 × 160 mm* Théodore Géricault the fiery French Romantic artist behind the monumental *The Raft of the Medusa* (1819), turned to lithography in his final years, producing this intimate series of eight small plates just before his untimely death in 1824 at age 32. Created amid personal struggles with illness, these works reflect Géricault's restless experimentation during a period when Romanticism emphasized raw emotion, dramatic light, and the human (or equine) form. Their petite scale—barely larger than a post...
About the Artist
Théodore Géricault · 1791–1824
Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) stands as one of the most influential pioneers of French Romanticism, despite a career tragically cut short at age thirty-two. Born in Rouen on September 26, 1791, into a wealthy family, Géricault's brief but intense artistic life transformed the trajectory of nineteenth-century European painting. Géricault began his formal training in 1808 under Carle Vernet, maste...