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Jean-Louis-AndrÈ-ThÈodore GÈricault, artist
French, 1791 - 1824
Passage du Mont St. Bernard, 1822
Lithograph
39.4 x 45.7 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.319
Artist Credit: all
Artist Biography: Born of wealthy parents, Gericault moved to Paris with his family about 1796. After studying at the Lycee Imperial, in 1808 he entered the studio of Carle Vernet, whose easy-going instruction he later quit for a stricter program of study (1810-11) under the neoclassicist Pierre Guerin. He also worked on his own copying examples in the Louvre of the dramatic art of Rubens Van Dyck, Titian, Veronese, and others. At the Salon of 1812 he exhibited his first major independent painting, "The Charging Chasseur" (Paris, Musee du Louvre), which won a medal and announced through its fiery treatment of military valor the emergence of Gericault's strongly romantic sensibility. Experiments with an antique manner preceded a trip to Italy in 1816-17. After exploring a number of themes that resulted in many small-scale works, Gericault finally found in the story of the raft of the Medusa a contemporary epic that allowed him to raise realism to a powerfully monumental level (Salon of 1819, Paris, Musee du Louvre). In 1820-22 he lived in England where he concentrated on genre subjects and lithographs. A series of portraits of the insane mark a final dramatic achievement. Gericault died of a spinal disease exacerbated by riding accidents.~
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Bernard St Mont du Passage Arts Graphic Achenbach Europe France Print Lithograph basket bread steals soldier monk*s face his resignation look who monk central attention attracts commander troop stiff Formal trust vulnerability authority power Contrast mountain crossing while monks encounter troops military French Restless Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault French 4157201200700019 A036554 1963.30.319 AFGA
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