Two Horses Walked by a Jockey
Medium
Lithograph in black with white heightening by hand on buff wove paper laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image/primary support: 32.3 × 38 cm (12 3/4 × 15 in.); Secondary support: 40.8 × 52.3 cm (16 1/8 × 20 5/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84518
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 ...