Wagon Ascending a Slope
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 22.3 × 30.5 cm (8 13/16 × 12 1/16 in.); Chine: 23.8 × 32.3 cm (9 3/8 × 12 3/4 in.); Sheet: 29 × 42 cm (11 7/16 × 16 9/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
79488
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 ...