Two Dappled-Grey Horses Being Exercised
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 16 13/16 x 22 7/8 in. (42.7 x 58.1 cm) plate: 11 3/16 x 16 9/16 in. (28.4 x 42 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number
20.17.7
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the dynamic world of Théodore Gault's *Two Dappled-Grey Horses Being Exercised* (1822), a captivating lithograph from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints collection. late in the artist's short life—he died at 32—this print captures two sleek, dappled-grey horses in spirited motion, guided by attentive handlers. Géricault, a leading French Romantic artist famed for dramatic works like *The Raft of the Medusa* (1819), had a lifelong passion for horses, viewing them as symbols of raw power and vitality. This piece belongs to his innovative series of horse lithographs fr...
About the Artist
Théodore Gericault · 1791–1824
Théodore Géricault, born Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault on September 26, 1791, in Rouen, France, into a prosperous family—his father a lawyer turned tobacco merchant and his mother from a line of growers—moved to Paris around 1797. Displaying early artistic promise, recognized by painter Jean-Louis Laneuville, he began formal training in 1808 under Carle Vernet, mastering English sporting art...