Two Draft Horses with a Sleeping Driver

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

Quick Overview

Artist: Théodore Géricault (French, Rouen 1791–1824 Paris)
Date: 1820–22
Medium: Brush and brown and gray wash, over graphite
Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 15 1/16 in. (29.9 x 38.2 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1996
Accession no.: 1996.365

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