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LL/67200
Théodore Géricault (French artist, 1791-1824)
1822
A Madwoman and Compulsive Gambler (La Folle Monomane du jeu)
[Les Monomanes (Portraits of the Insane)]

Oil painting, on canvas
77 × 65 cm (30.3 × 25.6 inS)
 
Musée du Louvre
One of a series of ten portraits of the insane inmates of Salpêtrière asylum in Paris made by Théodore Géricault at the request of psychiatrist Étienne-Jean Georget.
 
LL/67200


 

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