Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
French, 1791–1824
Born in Rouen; died in Paris.
Géricault trained with Carle Vernet and Pierre-Narcisse Guérin and studied the old masters in the Louvre, but his passion for horses and modern events shaped his art. The Raft of the Medusa, shown in 1819, turned a recent shipwreck scandal into a vast, harrowing painting, prepared through studies of corpses and severed heads. He spent 1820–21 in England, where he made lithographs of street life and horses. He died at thirty-two after a series of riding accidents.
Written by Ochre Editions.
- In the collection
- 3 worksDated 1813–1822
- Mostly
- Drawing and Watercolor, Drawings, Painting
- Courtesy of
- The Art Institute of Chicago, The Met
