Street Cleaners
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.6 × 24.3 cm (7 3/4 × 9 5/8 in.); Chine: 21.1 × 25.9 cm (8 5/16 × 10 1/4 in.); Sheet: 29.5 × 41.5 cm (11 5/8 × 16 3/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
79487
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 ...