Portrait of Théodore Gericault
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 3/8 × 11 9/16 in. (41.6 × 29.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.75.3
Tags
Art Historical Context
This 1824 lithograph captures the likeness of Théodore Géricault, the influential French painter best known for his dramatic Romantic masterpiece *The Raft of the Medusa*. Created in the year of Géricault’s untimely death at age thirty-three, the portrait stands as a poignant tribute to an artist whose bold compositions and emotional intensity helped shape early nineteenth-century Romanticism. The work’s medium—a lithograph—reflects the era’s growing interest in printmaking as a means of wider artistic dissemination, allowing images of celebrated figures to reach broader audiences beyond elite...
About the Artist
Feillet|Théodore Gericault|Alexandre-Marie Colin|Théodore Gericault (French|French|French|French) · 1822 |1791 |1798 |1791 –1828 |1824 |1875 |1824
French, active 1822–28|French, Rouen 1791–1824 Paris|French, Paris 1798–1875 Paris|French, Rouen 1791–1824 Paris