Entrance to the Adelphi Wharf, plate 11 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life on Stone
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 25.2 × 30.8 cm (9 15/16 × 12 3/16 in.); Sheet: 38.6 × 54.2 cm (15 1/4 × 21 3/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
14463
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 ...