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Lions in a Mountainous Landscape, ca. 1818–20. Oil on wood.
Oil on wood · 19 x 23 1/2 in. (48.3 x 59.7 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Lions in a Mountainous Landscape
- Artist
- Théodore Géricault (French, Rouen 1791–1824 Paris)
- Date
- ca. 1818–20
- Medium
- Oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 19 x 23 1/2 in. (48.3 x 59.7 cm)
- Credit line
- Purchase, Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Funds and Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2011
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1791–1824
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.