Why it matters
One of a series of ten portraits of the insane inmates of the Salpêtrière that Géricault painted for the psychiatrist Étienne-Jean Georget, each representing a clinical type.
Did you know?
- It dates from 1822.
- Only five of the ten portraits survive.
- Georget was one of the founders of social psychiatry.
Based on the Wikipedia article Portrait of a Kleptomaniac (CC BY-SA 4.0).
