The Coal Wagon, plate 7 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life and on Stone (The English Suite)
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
February 1821
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.3 × 31 cm (7 5/8 × 12 1/4 in.); Sheet: 37.4 × 49.4 cm (14 3/4 × 19 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
121985
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 ...