The Wounded Goetz Cared for by the Bohemians
1836
Medium
Lithograph in black with scrapping on stone, on thin off-white paper laid down on thick ivory wove paper (chine colle')
Dimensions
Image: 30.4 × 23 cm (12 × 9 1/16 in.); Sheet: 35.7 × 27 cm (14 1/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
14443
About the Artist
Eugène Delacroix · 1798–1863
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) stands as the defining figure of French Romanticism and a pivotal bridge to modernism. Born in Charenton-Saint-Maurice near Paris, he came from distinguished lineage—his mother descended from the prestigious Oeben-Riesener furniture dynasty, while persistent speculation suggested the statesman Talleyrand may have been his biological father, a theory supported by physic...