Théodore Géricault, September 26, 1791–January 26, 1824, was a French painter and lithographer associated with Romanticism.
He studied in Paris with Carle Vernet and Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. His early major paintings included The Charging Chasseur and The Wounded Cuirassier.
Géricault is best known for The Raft of the Medusa. He also produced portraits, horse studies, figure studies, landscapes, and lithographs.
Horace Vernet
Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault, 1822–1823
Oil on canvas, 18.6 x 15.1 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Academy Figure Study of a Man, c 1808–1812
Oil on canvas, 25.6 x 31.9 in
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen
The Charging Chasseur, 1812
Oil on canvas, 137.4 x 104.7 in
Louvre Museum, Paris
The Hindquarters of Twenty-four Horses, 1813
Oil on canvas
Private Collection
The Wounded Cuirassier, 1814
Oil on canvas, 140.9 x 115.7 in
Louvre Museum, Paris
Riderless Racers at Rome, 1817
Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 17.6 x 23.4 in
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Brown Horse in the Stalls, 1818
Oil on canvas, 10.3 x 13.8 in
Petit Palais, Paris
Portrait of a Young Man, c 1818
Oil on canvas
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Lions in a Mountainous Landscape, c 1818–1820
Oil on wood, 19 x 23.5 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
A Woman Suffering from Obsessive Envy, c 1819–1820
Oil on canvas, 28.3 x 22.8 in
Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon
Portrait of a Kleptomaniac, c 1820
Oil on canvas, 24 x 19.7 in
Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
Man with Delusions of Military Command, 19th century
Oil on canvas, 31.8 x 25.5 in
Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten, Winterthur, Switzerland
A Horse Frightened by Lightning, 1820–1821
Oil on canvas, 19.2 x 23.6 in
National Gallery, London
The Epsom Derby, 1821
Oil on canvas, 35.8 x 48 in
Louvre Museum, Paris
Head of a Youth, c 1821–1824
Oil on canvas, 18.1 x 15 in
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Naked Man Wrestling an Ox, 1817
Pen and brown ink, 9.5 x 11.9 in
Louvre Museum, Paris
Landscape with Fishermen, 1818
Graphite, pen and brown ink, and brown and blue wash, 8.8 x 8.1 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Study for The Raft of the Medusa, c 1818
Ink over pencil on paper, 8 x 11.8 in
Louvre Museum, Paris
Artillery of the Guard in Action
Black crayon, gouache, and watercolor on brown paper, 8.3 x 11.1 in
Louvre Museum, Paris
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