Artist

Théodore Géricault

Portrait of Théodore Géricault
Portrait of Théodore Géricault

French, 1791–1824

Théodore Géricault was a French Romanticism painter. 99 works are cataloged here, principally at National Gallery of Art, most of them oil paintings. Théodore Géricault was born in Rouen.

Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (French:; 26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) 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.

Works by Théodore Géricault

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