Paard en wagen voor een huis

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collector's mark: Lugt 789a

Art Historical Context

**Paard en Wagen voor een** (Horse and Cart in Front of a House), a delicate 1823 lithography by Théodore Géric, captures a quiet, everyday scene in a compact format of 137 × 194 mm. Created just a year before the artist's untimely death at age 32, this print reflects Géricault's late experimentation with lithography—a revolutionary 19th-century technique where drawings on stone were inked and transferred to paper, enabling precise reproduction of his dynamic sketches. As a leading figure in French Romanticism, Géricault was renowned for dramatic works like *The Raft of the Medusa* (1819), ye...

About the Artist

Théodore Géricault · 1791–1824

Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) stands as one of the most influential pioneers of French Romanticism, despite a career tragically cut short at age thirty-two. Born in Rouen on September 26, 1791, into a wealthy family, Géricault's brief but intense artistic life transformed the trajectory of nineteenth-century European painting. Géricault began his formal training in 1808 under Carle Vernet, maste...