Théodore Géricault: Romantic to Real
Drawing the Gruesome Cato Street Conspiracy Hangings
Most of the drawings by French Romanticist painter Théodore Géricault (1791 – 1824) are prepatory works for his renowned paintings. However one sketch he made displays his skilled journalistic instincts – a depiction of the hanging of the Cato Street Conspirators. During his visit to London in early 1820, alongside his lithographer friend Nicholas Touss…
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