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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

1812

The Wounded Cuirassier

1814

The Raft of the Medusa

1818

Sailboat on a Raging Sea

1818-1819

Portrait of a Kleptomaniac

1820

The Epsom Derby

1837
Portrait of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

I didn't know Picasso but he knew me

1746-1828
Portrait of Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich

The quiet tragedy of the big big world

1774-1840
Portrait of George Stubbs

George Stubbs

1724-1806
Portrait of William-Adolphe Bouguereau

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Creating beauty by the rules

1825-1905

Joseph Ducreux

Renaissance painter wins the internet

1735-1802
Portrait of Anne-Louis Girodet

Anne-Louis Girodet

A phenom works himself to death

1767-1824
17011900
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
Anna Atkins

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