Graphite sketch sheet with a peacock, rooster and hen by an urn, a reclining child, and small landscape studies on cream paper.

Sketches of Decorative Landscape and Animal Compositions

A graphite sheet of loosely drawn studies on cream paper. A peacock stands at left beside a rooster and hen before a classical urn, while smaller vignettes show a peacock, a reclining child, and tiny landscape scenes along the lower edge.

Artist: Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
Date: 1813/14
Medium: Graphite on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1270 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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