Sheet with five pen, brown wash and graphite sketches of cavalry battle scenes, rearing horses and riders in combat.

Five Sketches for a Cavalry Battle

Five studies on one sheet show horsemen and riders locked in combat, with rearing horses and tangled bodies. Two upper sketches use brown wash for dramatic shadow, while the lower sketches are lightly drawn in pen and graphite with quick, loose lines.

Artist: Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
Date: 1813/14
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1277 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1814).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Margaret Day Blake Collection

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