Two Horses Exercised by a Jockey
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 3/4 × 22 1/2 in. (42.5 × 57.2 cm) Image: 12 13/16 × 15 3/16 in. (32.5 × 38.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number
20.17.14
Tags
HorsesJockeys
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...