Haitian Horseman (Scene from the "French Colonial Wars")
Medium
Brush and brown ink and brown wash, over black chalk, on cream wove paper, pieced vertically through center
Dimensions
24.5 × 31.4 cm (9 11/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
Classification
brush and ink
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
150800
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 ...