# 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._

3 works in the collection.

- [Head of a Guillotined Man](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/head-of-a-guillotined-man-aic-119264), Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault, 1818–19. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Sheet of Sketches: Cavalry Battles and Mounted Soldiers](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/sheet-of-sketches-cavalry-battles-and-mounted-soldiers-aic-113385), Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault, 1813/14. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Two Draft Horses with a Sleeping Driver](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/two-draft-horses-with-a-sleeping-driver-met-337192), Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault, 1820–22. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.