Sketches of a Cavalry Battle, A Landscape with Cows, and Other Compositions
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault · c. 1814 · Graphite, pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Sketches of a Cavalry Battle, A Landscape with Cows, and Other Compositions is a public-domain drawing by Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault, dated c. 1814. Graphite, pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Sketches of a Cavalry Battle, A Landscape with Cows, and Other Compositions” (c. 1814) is by Géricault or a print after a picture of his. Many of the sheets are lithographs of horses or studies of the body, not the Raft.
About the artist
Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) was a French Romantic painter. The Raft of the Medusa is the famous canvas. He also made lithographs of horses and of people in hospitals.
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