Light Artillery Officer of the Imperial Guard (Officier d'artillerie legerie de la garde imperiale)
Théodore Gericault · 1823 · lithograph on papier mince
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About this picture
Light Artillery Officer of the Imperial Guard (Officier d'artillerie legerie de la garde imperiale) is a public-domain illustration by Théodore Gericault, dated 1823. Lithograph on papier mince. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Light Artillery Officer of the Imperial Guard (Officier d'artillerie legerie de la garde imperiale)” (1823) 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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