Théodore Géricault · ca. 1819–20
Alfred Dedreux (1810–1860) as a Child
Posters from $15 · Canvas from $39
Public-domain work from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's open access collection.
Up to 13 × 16 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of Alfred Dedreux (1810–1860) as a Child
Géricault's tender portrait of his young friend Alfred Dedreux, the son of the painter Pierre-Anne Dedreux. Alfred grew up to become one of France's most successful equestrian painters in his own right — a tribute, perhaps, to the time he spent watching Géricault paint horses. The portrait shows the boy with the wide, slightly melancholy eyes that became a hallmark of Romantic child portraiture. The Met holds it; the painting is one of the most reproduced of Géricault's small intimate works.
Théodore Géricault
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault was a French painter and lithographer. His best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa. Despite his short life, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement.
All Théodore Géricault prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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