# The Flemish Farrier, plate 4 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 (English, 19th…)
- Date: February 1821
- Medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Image: 22.8 × 31.5 cm (9 × 12 7/16 in.); Sheet: 37.5 × 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/121986)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/1e104ef1-1b86-ea94-d26e-930403553f44/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

These lithographs from The English Suite exhibit Théodore Géricault’s attention to working horses and the urban poor of 19th-century London. Two prints depict the horse-shoeing process; in one, the French farrier holds the horse’s hoof while an apprentice prepares a horseshoe in the back room. In another print, a Flemish farrier affixes the hot metal. In the pair of prints, an elderly man and woman are stranded in the city streets; bakers ignore the man slumped below their open shop window.

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