Farm Horses
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.2 × 26.7 cm (7 9/16 × 10 9/16 in.); Sheet: 27 × 35.9 cm (10 11/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
28816
Art Historical Context
Step into the stables of 19th-century France with *Farm Horses*, a captivating 1823 lithograph by Théodore Géricault, the fiery French Romantic artist best known for his monumental *Raft of the Medusa* (1819). Printed in bold black ink on creamy ivory wove paper, this intimate work measures just 19.2 × 26.7 cm, inviting close inspection of its muscular steeds—likely captured from Géricault's lifelong fascination with equine power and anatomy. Housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints and Drawings department, it exemplifies his late-career experiments in a revolutionary medium. Lithograp...
About the Artist
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault · 1791–1824
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) was born into a prosperous bourgeois family in Rouen, France, the son of a lawyer who managed the family tobacco business. After moving to Paris around 1797, his artistic talent emerged early, nurtured in a circle that included his maternal uncle Jean-Baptiste Caruel and art dealer Jean-Louis Laneuville. Géricault began formal training in 1808 under ...