De kolenwagen

About this artwork

verzamelaarsmerk, verso midden onder, gestempeld: Lugt 2760

Art Historical Context

### De Kolenwagen (The Coal Wagon) Step into the gritty streets of early 19th-century Europe Théodore Géricault'sDe kolenwagen* (The Coal Wagon), a poignant 1821 lithography measuring just 195 × 310 mm. Created in the final years of Géricault's short life—he died at 32—this print captures the artist's fascination with raw, everyday realism. Best known for his monumental Romantic masterpiece *The Raft of the Medusa* (1819), Géricault turned to lithography, a revolutionary medium invented just two decades earlier, to explore urban life and labor with dramatic intensity. Lithography allowed Gér...

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...