Boxers

Théodore Gericault French

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Gericault began to practice lithography—a medium associated with French Romanticism—in 1817, quickly mastering the technique. This image represents the popular English sport of boxing: two muscular combatants, in strikingly similar poses, confront one another. The black-and-white medium is used here to accentuate racial difference through stylized symmetries. In a dynamic and dramatic image, Gericault presents rivalry as a conflict between two male "opposites," with a highly charged space between them.

Boxers, Théodore Gericault (French, Rouen 1791–1824 Paris), Lithograph

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Boxers, Théodore Gericault (French, Rouen 1791–1824 Paris), Lithograph
Boxers, Théodore Gericault (French, Rouen 1791–1824 Paris), Lithograph

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