Stagecoach Drawn by Five Horses and Other Sketches
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
1818/1819
Medium
Graphite, on cream laid paper, perimeter mounted on cream wove paper
Dimensions
21.4 × 27.5 cm (8 7/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113323
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 ...