Lithograph of a man with a cane and bag walking past a Swiss guard in a tall shako beside a doorway, with a domed building and figures in the background.

Swiss Sentry at the Louvre

A man in a tall top hat and long coat, with a white cloth and a bag, walks with a cane past a Swiss guard in a tall shako who holds a musket with fixed bayonet beside a doorway. Hatched tones on ivory paper show a city street with a domed building and onlookers behind. The caption reads Le Factionnaire Suisse au Louvre, with Géricault del. at lower left.

Artist: Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
Date: 1819
Medium: Lithograph on ivory wove paper (discolored to cream)
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 2158 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1819).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Print and Drawing Fund; The Joseph Brooks Fair Fund

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