The Raft of the Medusa

Théodore Géricault

Portrait of Théodore Géricault

Théodore Géricault was a French artist born on April 26, 1798. Géricault contributed to the Romantic and Neoclassical movements, worked in England and died on August 13, 1863. Get notified when Théodore Géricault's biography is complete:

An Officer of the Imperial Horse Guards Charging

The Wounded Cuirassier

The Raft of the Medusa

Sailboat on a Raging Sea

Portrait of a Kleptomaniac

The Epsom Derby

Portrait of Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich

The quiet tragedy of the big big world

Portrait of Eugène Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix

Drama, movement and a search for the exotic

Portrait of Ivan Aivazovsky

Ivan Aivazovsky

A military painter sponsored by the state—smells like propaganda

Joseph Ducreux

Renaissance painter wins the internet

Portrait of Anne-Louis Girodet

Anne-Louis Girodet

A phenom works himself to death

Portrait of Antonio Canova

Antonio Canova

A global titan of neoclassical sculpture

Of Love and Mushrooms

Orra White Hitchcock

An underdog artist pits monsters vs. superheroes

Utagawa Kuniyoshi Théodore Géricault

Drama, movement and a search for the exotic

Eugène Delacroix

Electric blue: the first photographic book

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