The Coal Waggon (Primary Title)
The English Series (Series Title)
Various Subjects Drawn from Life and On Stone (Series Title)
Théodore Géricault, French, 1791 - 1824 (Artist)
Rodwell & Martin, British, 1819 - 1846 (Publisher)
Charles Hullmandel, British, 1789 - 1850 (Printer)
While best known as a painter of such masterpieces of romanticism as The Raft of the Medusa, Géricault produced a body of nearly one hundred lithographs during his lifetime. His work in this medium proliferated after his voyage to England in 1820. There his style changed from the overtly passionate style he used to represent extraordinary events to a quieter, more subdued style with which he was able to produce moody studies of everyday life as in this sheet from the English Series.
Printed beneath image, lower left: "T. Gericault invt"; lower right: "C. Hullmandel's Lithography"; lower center: "THE COAL WAGGON./ London. Published by Rodwell & Martin New Bond St. Feb.y 1, 1821." Inscribed in graphite lower left: "2 e State"
Purchased as a gift of Frank Raysor
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