Egyptian Mare 1822

Editor: Here we have Théodore Géricault's "Egyptian Mare," a print that feels both classical and exotic to me. I'm curious, what's your read on this piece? Curator: For me, it whispers of adventure and the romance of the Orient, doesn’t it? Géricault, though French, never actually went to Egypt. The mare is so powerful, yet the scene feels filtered through a European lens of imagination, a dream of another world. It is almost as if the artist wants us to travel. Editor: I hadn't thought of it that way, like a portal! Thanks for sharing that perspective. Curator: And thank you for noticing the magic. I think that’s what great art does: it invites us to travel to places real and imagined.