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Théodore Géricault
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault was a French painter and lithographer. His best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa. Despite his short life, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement.
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culture · French painter (1791–1824) · painter · graphic artist · sculptor · lithographer · architectural drafter · draftsperson · visual artist · also Théodore Géricault, Theodore Gericault, Théodore Gericault, Jean-Louis-André-Theodore Géricault, Jean Louis André Theodore Géricault, Jean-Louis-André-Theodore Gericault
Born 26 September 1791 · Died 26 January 1824 · Q184212
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2026· 2 entries
MutualArt.com: Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
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2024· 1 entry
paris-normandie.fr: 200 ans de la mort de Théodore Géricault : né à Rouen, qui était le peintre du Radeau de la Méduse ?
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2023· 2 entries
The Art Newspaper: A 200-year-old family collection of largely unseen Théodore Géricault paintings heads to auction
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MutualArt.com: Still Death: Théodore Géricault’s Morbid Fascination
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: Man with the 'Monomania' of Child Kidnapping, Theodore Géricault
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2020· 2 entries
The Washington Post: A painting of Théodore Géricault as he lay dying is as astonishing as it is unflinching
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Linternaute.com: Théodore Géricault : biographie du peintre du Radeau de La Méduse
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2016· 1 entry
PBS: Web Appraisal: Théodore Géricault Oil Painting Copy
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2015· 1 entry
Artnet: Did a Museum in Rochefort Forget a Théodore Géricault Painting in Storage for 150 years?
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2012· 1 entry
The Independent: Charging Chasseur, 1812, by Théodore Géricault
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2009· 1 entry
The Independent: Great Works: A Horse Frightened By Lightning (C1813-14), Théodore Géricault
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1824· 1 entry
Died 1824-01-26.
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1821· 2 entries
While still in England, he painted The Derby of Epsom
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Géricault was inspired to paint a series of ten portraits of the insane
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1820· 1 entry
Accompanied by Géricault himself, where it received much praise
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1811· 1 entry
Studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris (1811).
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1810· 1 entry
Géricault began studying classical figure composition under Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, a rigorous classicist who disapproved of his student's impulsive temperament while recognizing his talent
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1808· 1 entry
Géricault began training at the studio of Carle Vernet, where he was educated in the tradition of English sporting art
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1802· 1 entry
With France once more at peace, Robillard de Peronville and Pierre Laurent, an engraver, founded the Entreprise De La Gravure De La Galerie du Musée Central des Arts à Paris - a private business partnership producing hi
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1791· 1 entry
Born 1791-09-26.
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