The English Farrier, plate 10 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life on Stone
Medium
Lithograph in black with tint stone in gray-green on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 28 × 37 cm (11 1/16 × 14 5/8 in.); Sheet: 31.1 × 40.1 cm (12 1/4 × 15 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
80045
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 ...