26,8" THEODORE GERICAULT "Riderless Racers in Rome" painting art printed on canvas
THEODORE GERICAULT (1791 – 1824)
Title of artwork: "Riderless Racers in Rome"
Ready to hang on the wall. Canvas on the wooden underframe. Outer frame are not included!
Year: 1817
Technique: printed on canvas nowadays
Condition: perfect
Diagonal: 26,8" or 68 cm.
Size: 21,7" x 15,7" (in) or 55 x 40 cm.
Please note that this is a reproduction printed on canvas.
The size may differ from how it looks in the photo.
Color can be slightly different from the picture.
Jean-Louis André
Théodore Géricault was an influential French painter and lithographer. Although
he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. Géricault's
first major work, The Charging Chasseur, exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1812,
revealed the influence of the style of Rubens and an interest in the depiction
of contemporary subject matter. This youthful success, ambitious and monumental,
was followed by a change in direction: for the next several years Géricault
produced a series of small studies of horses and cavalrymen. He exhibited
Wounded Cuirassier at the Salon in 1814, a work more labored and less well
received. In the nearly two years that followed the 1814 Salon, he also
underwent a self-imposed study of figure construction and composition, all the
while evidencing a personal predilection for drama and expressive force.
Géricault's last efforts were directed toward preliminary studies for several
epic compositions, including the Opening of the Doors of the Spanish
Inquisition and the African Slave Trade. The preparatory drawings suggest works
of great ambition, but Géricault's waning health intervened. Weakened by riding
accidents and chronic tubercular infection, Géricault died in Paris in 1824
after a long period of suffering.
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