The Giaour
Medium
Lithograph; second state of three
Dimensions
sheet: 10 11/16 x 14 3/16 in. (27.2 x 36 cm) plate: 5 7/8 x 8 7/16 in. (15 x 21.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.621.5
Tags
About the Artist
Théodore Gericault|François de Villain · 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...