Artist: Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault
Museum: Museum of Fine Arts (Lyon, France)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
This is one of a series of five portraits depicting the insane, painted by Géricault before his year in England (1820–1821). Writers usually say that practically nothing is known about the origin of these portraits. In a letter from 1863, the critic Louis Viardot relates how they were discovered by chance in Baden-Baden and describes their subjects as
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