Horses Going to a Fair, plate 3 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life and on Stone (The English Suite)
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault (printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel (German and English, 1789-1850); published by Rodwell and Martin)
February 1821
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 25.4 × 35.7 cm (10 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 37.8 × 49.6 cm (14 15/16 × 19 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Alan Rutenberg; Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
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.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
