Lions in a Mountainous Landscape

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Théodore Géricault (French, Rouen 1791–1824 Paris)
Date: ca. 1818–20
Medium: Oil on wood
Dimensions: 19 x 23 1/2 in. (48.3 x 59.7 cm)
Type: Painting
Classification: Paintings
Department: European Paintings
Credit line: Purchase, Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Funds and Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2011
Accession no.: 2011.5

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