Art, literature & history
Seated Italian Peasant
1816/1817
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Watercolor, with black crayon and traces of pink gouache, over black chalk, on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 25.8 × 21.3 cm (10 3/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1985.773
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Théodore Géricault. Seated Italian Peasant, 1816/1817. Inventory 1985.773. Théodore Géricault; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: The Regenstein Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/104670. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Seated Italian Peasant — Théodore Géricault. 1816/1817.
Medium: Watercolor, with black crayon and traces of pink gouache, over black chalk, on cream wove paper. Dimensions: 25.8 × 21.3 cm (10 3/16 × 8 7/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.