Sketches of Men's Faces, Horses' Muzzles, and Mounted Soldiers
Medium
Graphite and black crayon with pen and brown ink on tan wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
17.4 × 23 cm (6 7/8 × 9 1/16 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113374
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 ...