The Flemish Farrier
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 16 9/16 x 22 13/16 in. (42.1 x 57.9 cm) plate: 9 9/16 x 12 11/16 in. (24.3 x 32.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number
20.17.9
Tags
Art Historical Context
**The Flemish Farrier**1822) by Thé Géricault invites visitors into a bustling scene of 19th-century working life at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department. lithograph captures a Flemish blacksmith—or farrier—at his forge, surrounded by sturdy men, curious children, loyal dogs, and powerful horses. Géricault, a leading French Romantic artist known for dramatic compositions like *The Raft of the Med*, here turns his keen eye to everyday labor, infusing the ordinary with vitality and raw energy. Lithography, a revolutionary printing technique Géricault helped pioneer, a...
About the Artist
Théodore Gericault · 1791–1824
Théodore Géricault, born Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault on September 26, 1791, in Rouen, France, into a prosperous family—his father a lawyer turned tobacco merchant and his mother from a line of growers—moved to Paris around 1797. Displaying early artistic promise, recognized by painter Jean-Louis Laneuville, he began formal training in 1808 under Carle Vernet, mastering English sporting art...