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The Raft of the Medusa, 1818

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

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

I didn't know Picasso but he knew me

1746-1828

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Every age has its Star Boy — might as well be J.M.W. Turner

1775-1851

Gustave Doré

Father of Horror, Father of Fantasy

1832-1883

Angelica Kauffmann

A feminist prodigy charms the European elite

1741-1807

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Creating beauty by the rules

1825-1905

Alexandre Cabanel

Favorite of the salon, a classical painter with an erotic edge

1823-1889
17011900
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Anna Atkins

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