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The Raft of the Medusa, 1818

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

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

I didn't know Picasso but he knew me

Joseph Mallord William Turner

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

Gustave Doré

Father of Horror, Father of Fantasy

Angelica Kauffmann

A feminist prodigy charms the European elite

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Creating beauty by the rules

Alexandre Cabanel

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

Nudes teach you everything you need to know (to paint landscapes)

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

An underdog artist pits monsters vs. superheroes

Utagawa Kuniyoshi Théodore Géricault

Drama, movement and a search for the exotic

Eugène Delacroix

Britain's photographic pioneer

William Henry Fox Talbot

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