Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 12 3/8 × 14 3/4 in. (31.4 × 37.5 cm) Sheet: 15 1/16 x 21 7/8 in. (38.3 x 55.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.63.26
Tags
StreetsSadnessMenWomenDogs
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...