1350
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
244; 293; 418; 196
About this artwork
Een man schept de vuilnis in zijn wagen. Voor de wagen zijn drie trekpaarden gespannen.
Art Historical Context
**Théodore Géricault *1350* (1823 Created in 1823, just a year before his untimely death at age 32 *1350* is a lithography by French Romantic artist Théodore Gault. Measuring a modest 196 × 244 mm, this captures a gritty urban scene: a laborer shoveling refuse into a cart pulled by three sturdy draft horses. Géricault, renowned for masterpieces like *The Raft of the Med* (1819), turned to lithography in his final years, producing over 30 prints that explored everyday life with raw realism. Lithography, a revolutionary 19th-century technique using greasy crayon on stone for crisp reproduction...
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...