Four drawings: Two Reclining Male Nudes and Two Studies of Ottoman Figures
Théodore Gericault
1816-23
Medium
Pen and ink and watercolor
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 in. × 16 1/8 in. (33 × 41 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Jill Newhouse, 2022
Accession Number
2022.458
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Théodore Gericault · 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...