Quatre Sujets Divers
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
203; 294; 253; 404
About this artwork
height 203 mm x width 253 mm
Art Historical Context
Théodore Géricault *Quatre Sujets Divers* (1823) is a captivating lithograph from the final year of the artist's short but brilliant career. As a leading figure in French Romanticism, Géricault was renowned for his dramatic, emotionally charged works like *The Raft of the Medusa (1819), whichized audiences with its raw realism and critique of human suffering. Created just before his death at age 32, this print reflects his experimentation, gathering four varied motifs—likely evoking his fascination with the human form, horses, and dynamic compositions—into a single, compact sheet measuring 203...
About the Artist
Théodore Géricault · 1791–1824
Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) stands as one of the most influential pioneers of French Romanticism, despite a career tragically cut short at age thirty-two. Born in Rouen on September 26, 1791, into a wealthy family, Géricault's brief but intense artistic life transformed the trajectory of nineteenth-century European painting. Géricault began his formal training in 1808 under Carle Vernet, maste...