Suite de sept petites pièces
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
168; 138; 220; 299
About this artwork
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Art Historical Context
**Suite de sept petites pièces**1823) by Théodore Géric invites visitors into the intimate world of one of Romanticism's most daring artists. Created just a year before Géricault's untimely death at age 32, this suite comprises seven small lithographs, each measuring a modest 138 × 168 mm. The French painter, famed for his monumental *Raft of the Med* (1819), turned to lithography in his final years to capture raw emotion and movement with unprecedented freedom—often in studies of horses, limbs, or human figures that reveal his fascination with anatomy and drama. Lithography, a revolutionary ...
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...