Sketches of Men's Faces, Horses' Muzzles, and Mounted Soldiers
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault · 1813/14 · Graphite and black crayon with pen and brown ink on tan 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 Men's Faces, Horses' Muzzles, and Mounted Soldiers is a public-domain drawing by Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault, dated 1813/14. Graphite and black crayon with pen and brown ink on tan wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Sketches of Men's Faces, Horses' Muzzles, and Mounted Soldiers” (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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