id: 112900 accession number: 1931.48 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.48 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:03.255000 Return from Russia, c. 1818. Théodore Géricault (French, 1791–1824). Lithograph printed in black and ochre with watercolor added by hand; border: 44.4 x 36.4 cm (17 1/2 x 14 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1931.48 title: Return from Russia title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1818 creation date earliest: 1813 creation date latest: 1823 current location: creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: lithograph printed in black and ochre with watercolor added by hand department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Delteil vol. 18, no.13 --- CREATORS * Théodore Géricault (French, 1791–1824) - artist --- measurements: Border: 44.4 x 36.4 cm (17 1/2 x 14 5/16 in.) state of the work: III/VI edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter opening date: 1956-03-08T05:00:00 Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 8-April 15, 1956). title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). title: Goya, Gericault and Delacroix opening date: 1983-01-25T05:00:00 Goya, Gericault and Delacroix. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-April 24, 1983). title: Printing in Color opening date: 1985-09-10T04:00:00 Printing in Color. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-November 17, 1985). title: Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland opening date: 1991-04-02T05:00:00 Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991). title: Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints opening date: 2001-08-26T00:00:00 Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/26/01-10/28/01. "Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19th-Century French Prints". --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Géricault was a marvelous lithographer who realized the potential of the medium. Two stones were used to print this image—one for the design printed in black and the other to create the broad areas of tone printed in ocher. This is one of the earliest French lithographs in which a second color is somewhat integrated into the image instead of just being used for the overall background. Géricault added white watercolor to indicate snow on the lower portion of the scene. Unlike other artists who glorified the Napoleonic Wars (1792–1815), Gericault portrayed a realistic image of the misery and horrors of combat. This scene of two wounded soldiers and exhausted, starving animals is a powerful statement of the pitiful conditions following Napoleon's defeat by the Russians. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949. page number: Mentioned: p. 37 url: https://archive.org/details/Lithography/page/n44 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.48/1931.48_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.48/1931.48_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.48/1931.48_full.tif