Portrait of Théodore Gericault
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 22 1/16 in. × 15 in. (56 × 38.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Maurice Le Garrec, 1922
Accession Number
22.91.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the heart of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department sits Léon Cogniet's *Portrait of Théodore Géricault* (1824), a lithograph measuring 22 1/16 × 15 inches. Created in the very year of Géricault's untimely death at age 32, this work immortalizes the French Romantic painter best known for his dramatic masterpiece *The Raft of the Medusa* (1819). Cogniet, a fellow French artist trained in the neoclassical tradition but embracing Romantic expressiveness, captures Géricault with a direct gaze and tousled hair, evoking the intensity that defined his short but influential...
About the Artist
Léon Cogniet|Théodore Gericault (French|French) · 1794 | –1880 |
French, Paris 1794–1880 Paris|