The Piper, plate one from Various Subjects Drawn from Life on Stone
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 31.3 × 23.3 cm (12 3/8 × 9 3/16 in.); Sheet: 55.2 × 38.2 cm (21 3/4 × 15 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
20192
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 ...