Three Caricatures of Heads

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault (French, 1791-1824) / or Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)
Date: 1818/19
Medium: Graphite on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 21 × 27.2 cm (8 5/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: graphite
Place: France
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Margaret Day Blake Collection
Accession no.: 1947.35.30R

Fighting Horses
Théodore Géricault
c. 1820 · Drawing
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00000295
Head of a Guillotined Man
Théodore Géricault
1818–19 · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001551
Napoleonic Army Coach with Sketches of Heads
Théodore Géricault
1818/1819 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002674
The Rescue of the Survivors of the Raft of the Medusa
Théodore Géricault
c. 1818 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002770