# A Paraleytic Woman, plate 9 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life and on Stone (The English Suite)

- By: Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault (printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel (German and English, 1789-1850); published by Rodwell and Martin)
- Date: April 1821
- Medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Image: 22.6 × 31.7 cm (8 15/16 × 12 1/2 in.); Sheet: 37.6 × 49.6 cm (14 13/16 × 19 9/16 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Purchased with funds provided by Alan Rutenberg; Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/121979)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d7306d85-8f11-cc56-4f64-fac6037b04aa/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Although he was renowned as a painter, Théodore Géricault feared that he could never rival the work of his predecessors. Thus, he embraced the invention of lithography in the late 18th century as an opportunity to become the master of a new medium. Here Géricault used the lines of the building to frame the young girl’s despair at the plight of the older woman.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0