Landscape with Fishermen
Medium
Graphite, pen and brown ink, brown and blue wash
Dimensions
8 3/4 x 8 1/16 in. (22.25 x 20.45 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Fletcher Fund, David T. Schiff Gift, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2000
Accession Number
2000.36
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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...