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Man Clutching a Horse in Water, after Poussin's
Man Clutching a Horse in Water, after Poussin's "Deluge" (recto)
France, 19th century · c. 1816 · pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite
Man Clutching a Horse in Water, after Poussin's
Man Clutching a Horse in Water, after Poussin's "Deluge" (recto); Compositional Study? (possibly for "Poussin's Deluge") (verso)
France, 19th century · c. 1816 · pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite
Compositional Study? (possibly for
Compositional Study? (possibly for "Poussin’s Deluge") (verso)
France, 19th century · c. 1816 · brown wash and black crayon
Return from Russia
Return from Russia
France, 19th century · c. 1818 · lithograph printed in black and ochre with watercolor added by hand
Fighting Horses
Fighting Horses
France, 19th century · c. 1820 · watercolor over graphite
The Raft of the Medusa
The Raft of the Medusa
French Romanticism · 1818–1819 · Louvre, Paris
A real recent disaster: 147 men cut loose on a raft off Senegal after the captain took the lifeboats. Fifteen survived. Géricault visited morgues and built a model in his studio.
The Return from Russia
The Return from Russia
France · 1818 · Lithograph in black with tan tint stone on ivory wove paper
Sheet of Sketches (recto and verso)
Sheet of Sketches (recto and verso)
France, 19th century · 1819 · pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper
Various Subjects Drawn from Life and on Stone:  Entrance to Adelphi Wharf
Various Subjects Drawn from Life and on Stone: Entrance to Adelphi Wharf
France, 19th century · 1821 · lithograph
Various Subjects Drawn from Life and on Stone:  The English Farrier
Various Subjects Drawn from Life and on Stone: The English Farrier
France, 19th century · 1821 · color lithograph