A French Farrier, plate 12 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life and on Stone (The English Suite)

Discussion

FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

These lithographs from The English Suite exhibit Théodore Géricault’s attention to working horses and the urban poor of 19th-century London. Two prints depict the horse-shoeing process; here, the French farrier holds the horse’s hoof while an apprentice prepares a horseshoe in the back room. In another print, a Flemish farrier affixes the hot metal. In the pair of prints, an elderly man and woman are stranded in the city streets; bakers ignore the man slumped below their open shop window.

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