Hoefsmid aan het werk
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
253; 424; 204; 292
About this artwork
De schuur van een hoefsmid met een aantal paarden. Een man houdt de achterhoef van een paard vast, de smid duwt het hete ijzer er tegenaan.
Art Historical Context
**Hoefsmid aan het werk (rier at Work), Théodore Géricault,1823** Step into the gritty world of Théodore Géricault'sHoefsmid aan het werk*, a vivid lithograph capturing the raw intensity of a farrier's workshop. Dated 1823, this intimate scene (204 × 253 mm) depicts dimly lit barn filled with horses, where a sturdy assistant grips a horse's hind hoof steady while the blacksmith presses glowing hot iron against it to shape the shoe. Géricault, the French Romantic master behind the monumental *Raft of the Medusa* (1819), infused everyday labor with dramatic tension, highlighting the muscular fo...
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...