The Sleeping Fishmonger
Medium
Lithograph in black on light gray wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.6 × 29.2 cm (8 9/16 × 11 1/2 in.); Sheet: 28.8 × 42.6 cm (11 3/8 × 16 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
12251
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 ...