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Théodore Géricault Biography

French Romantic painter, sculptor, lithographer and draftsman
born 1791 - died 26 January 1824
Also known as: Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

GERICAULT, JEAN LOUIS ANDRE THEODORE (1791-1824), French painter, the leader of the French realistic school, was born at Rouen in 1791. In 1808 Théodore Géricault entered the studio of Charles Vernet, from which, in 1810, he passed to that of Guérin, whom he drove to despair by his passion for Rubens, and by the unorthodox manner in which Théodore Géricault artist persisted in interpreting nature.

Two years later (1814) re-exhibited this Théodore Géricault painting accompanied with the reverse picture Cuirassier blessé (Louvre), and in both subjects called attention to the interest of contemporary aspects of life, treated neglected types of living form, and exhibited that mastery of and delight in the horse which was a feature of his character. Disconcerted by the tempest of contradictory opinion which arose over these two pictures, Theodore Gericault gave way to his enthusiasm for horses and soldiers, and enrolled himself in the mousquetaires. During the Hundred Days Théodore Géricault followed the king to Bethune, but, on his regiment being disbanded, eagerly returned to his profession, left France for Italy in 1816, and at Rome nobly illustrated his favorite animal by great Théodore Géricault painting Course des Chevaux Libres.

Returning to Paris, the artist exhibited at the Salon of 1819 the Radeau de la Méduse [The Raft of the Medusa] (Louvre), a subject which not only enabled him to prove his zealous and scientific study of the human form, but contained those elements of the heroic and pathetic, as existing in situations of modern life, to which Théodore Géricault artist had appealed in his earliest productions. Easily depressed or elated, he took to heart the hostility which this Géricault painting excited, and passed nearly two years in London, where the Radeau was exhibited with success, and where Théodore Géricault executed many series of admirable lithographs now rare. - famous oil paintings for sale and Theodore Gericault Biography of French painter.

At the close of 1822 Théodore Géricault was again in Paris, and produced a great quantity of projects for vast compositions, models in wax, and a horse écorché, as preliminary to the production of an equestrian statue. His health was now completely undermined by various kinds of excess, and on the 26th of January 1824 Théodore Géricault artist died, at the age of thirty-three.