Drummer Boy Attacked by a Cossack
Medium
Brush, brown wash, heightened with white over black chalk on brown wove paper
Dimensions
8 9/16 x 6 5/16 in. (21.8 x 16 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Joan Whitney Payson, 1976
Accession Number
1976.201.6
Tags
About the Artist
Théodore Gericault|Jean Victor Schnetz · 1791–1824
Théodore Géricault, born Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault on September 26, 1791, in Rouen, France, into a prosperous family—his father a lawyer turned tobacco merchant and his mother from a line of growers—moved to Paris around 1797. Displaying early artistic promise, recognized by painter Jean-Louis Laneuville, he began formal training in 1808 under Carle Vernet, mastering English sporting art...