Der Trompeter der Orleans-Husaren
Théodore Géricault
1813/1814
Medium
��l auf Leinwand
Dimensions
48 x 38,3 cm
Classification
Gemälde
Department
Belvedere Collection
Museum
Belvedere
Credit
Belvedere, Vienna
Accession Number
2518
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...