Portrait of Auguste Brunet
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 18.7 × 14.8 cm (7 3/8 × 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 31.6 × 24.1 cm (12 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
69724
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 ...