
Horses Exercising, plate 6 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life and on Stone (The English Suite)
<p>These lithographs from <em>The English Suite</em> 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.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1821
- Dimensions
- Image: 29.4 × 41.4 cm (11 5/8 × 16 5/16 in.); Sheet: 37.7 × 49.6 cm (14 7/8 × 19 9/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist

Printmaking
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault (French, 1791-1824)
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Record
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- 1821
- Dimensions
- Image: 29.4 × 41.4 cm (11 5/8 × 16 5/16 in.); Sheet: 37.7 × 49.6 cm (14 7/8 × 19 9/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1821-125063
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified





