Four drawings: Two Reclining Male Nudes and Two Studies of Ottoman Figures

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This artwork was created 1816-23.

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Yes, Four drawings: Two Reclining Male Nudes and Two Studies of Ottoman Figures is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Théodore Gericault

1816-23

Medium

Pen and ink and watercolor

Dimensions

Sheet: 13 in. × 16 1/8 in. (33 × 41 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Jill Newhouse, 2022

Accession Number

2022.458

About the Artist

Théodore Gericault · 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...

Four drawings: Two Reclining Male Nudes and Two Studies of Ottoman Figures

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