Drummer Boy Attacked by a Cossack
Medium
Brush, brown wash, heightened with white over black chalk on brown wove paper
Dimensions
8 9/16 x 6 5/16 in. (21.8 x 16 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Joan Whitney Payson, 1976
Accession Number
1976.201.6
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Théodore Gericault|Jean Victor Schnetz · 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...