Five Sketches for a Cavalry Battle
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault · 1813/14 · Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
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About this picture
Five Sketches for a Cavalry Battle is a public-domain drawing by Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault, dated 1813/14. Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Five Sketches for a Cavalry Battle” (1813/14) 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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