Horses Exercising, plate 6 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life on Stone
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 29.2 × 41.1 cm (11 1/2 × 16 3/16 in.); Sheet: 38.3 × 55.7 cm (15 1/8 × 21 15/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
12254
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 ...