Sketches of Horses and Soldiers
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
c. 1818–1819
Medium
Graphite and pen and brown ink, on cream laid paper, perimeter mounted on cream wove paper
Dimensions
22.6 × 28.7 cm (8 15/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113391
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 ...