The Return from Russia
Medium
Lithograph in black with tan tint stone on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 44.4 × 36.1 cm (17 1/2 × 14 1/4 in.); Sheet: 58.7 × 41.9 cm (23 1/8 × 16 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
75089
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 ...