Who created "The Passage of Mount Saint Bernard"?

The Passage of Mount Saint Bernard was created by Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault in 1822.

What medium is "The Passage of Mount Saint Bernard"?

The Passage of Mount Saint Bernard is Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper.

The Passage of Mount Saint Bernard

Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

1822

Medium

Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

Image: 35.9 × 41.7 cm (14 3/16 × 16 7/16 in.); Sheet: 41.8 × 53.2 cm (16 1/2 × 21 in.)

Classification

lithograph

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

40863

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 ...

The Passage of Mount Saint Bernard

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