Wagon Laden with Wounded Soldiers
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 29 × 29.5 cm (11 7/16 × 11 5/8 in.); Sheet: 29.5 × 31.2 cm (11 5/8 × 12 5/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
14453
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 ...