Portrait Study of a Youth (Q72753442)
Label from: English (en)
artist:
Théodore Géricault (Q184212)
collection:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
location:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur ID:
20401447
Google Arts & Culture asset ID:
WgGzK-m44Ei7LQ
catalog URL: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection-object/portrait-study-youth
information from the Kimbell Art Museum catalog
description: In the Salon of 1819, Géricault showed his celebrated Raft of the Medusa. During a period of illness and convalescence in the seven months between the completion of the Medusa and the artist’s departure for England in April of 1820, he turned to small works, among them portraits of adolescents. The Study of a Youth may have been executed in this period. The effects of light in the flushed cheek, glossy hair, and gleaming eyes lend the work a liveliness and intimacy of characterization.
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