Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault is now identified as a pioneer of Romanticism in French painting. He loved horses, and dramatic images of rearing horses feature in his work. He was born at Rouen, and from 1808 trained in Paris with Carle Vernet. But after two years he left Vernet - saying 'One of my horses would have devoured six of his' - to go to the Neo-classican painter Pierre Guérin, with whom his friend Delacroix later studied.
Géricault was influenced by the military subjects of Baron Gros and by works in the Louvre, notably those by Rubens and Renaissance Venetian painters. A visit to Italy in 1816-7 intensified Géricault's appreciation of Michelangelo. On his return to Paris he painted his most famous work, 'The Raft of the Medusa' (Paris, The Louvre), a scene of modern drama on a vast scale and executed in the heroic manner, which he exhibited at the Salon of 1819.
An admirer of English art, like Delacroix, he visited England in 1820-1, returning in a state of poor health. From his last years date an exceptional series of portraits, commissioned by a friend, of the inmates of a lunatic asylum.
For earlier works see parts 1 - 6 also. This is part 7 of a 7-part series on the works of Théodore Géricault. Note: Dates were not found for the remainder of posts in this series:
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| n.d. Guard Artillery in action Black pencil, white gouache, brown wash, & brown watercolour on paper 21 x 28.3 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Gericault's left hand black pencil.red chalk & watercolour 22.5 x 29.5 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. General of the First Empire giving his cavalry orders to charge watercolour, with red chalk and graphite, on cream wove paper 53.5 x 45 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| n.d. Frightened horse pen and brown ink on grey-green laid paper 23.2 x 31.1 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, MI. |
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| n.d. French horse tied in front of arcades black pencil. brown wash, & watercolour on paper 10.9 x 14.5 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Horse race pen and brown ink, white highlights on beige paper, glued to cardboard 15.5 x 24.4 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Horse in training graphite, watercolour & gouache on paper 24.4 x 30.8 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Head of a man pen and brown ink over traces of graphite on wove paper 16.3 x 13,1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| n.d. Head and hindquarters of a racing horse graphite on ivory laid paper 17.4 x 13.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| n.d. Guard Artillery in action black pencil, white gouache, brown wash, & brown watercolour on paper 21 x 28.3 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Lion hunt (attributed to Géricault) watercolour, brush and brown ink, and gouache over graphite on blue-grey modern laid paper 32.2 x 40.8 cm Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museums, Cambridge, MA |
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| n.d. Lion and lioness black pencil, brown wash & watercolour on paper 14.8 x 22.7 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Leaving the stable graphite & watercolour on paper 20.3 x 25.8 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Laura wounded lithograph (size not given) Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museums, Cambridge, MA |
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| n.d. Horses and riders pen and brown ink on grey-green laid paper 23.2 x 31.1 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, MI |
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| n.d. Man, seen from behind, raising his arm and man's head pen & brown wash on paper 19.3 x 11.6 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Man on horseback, and study of a horse's head black chalk on paper 21.4 x 28.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| n.d. Man in a smock and a horse pen and brown ink 18.5 x 22.4 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Man holding a horse black stone: white highlights on grey paper 26.6 x 36 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Mameluke holding back his horse black pencil, brush and brown wash and white gouache highlights on brown paper 19.7 x 24.8 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Louis XVIII reviewing the Champ de Mars pen, brown ink, brush and watercolour over graphite pencil 25.8 x 35.5 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Seated Carabiniere holding a newborn child: naked man kneeling black pencil on paper (size not given) Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Rearing horse lead pencil on paper 22.1 x 29 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Portrait of Mustapha, Géricault's Turkish servant black pencil & watercolour 30 x 20 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Portrait of Admiral Baron Guy-Victor Duperré graphite on paper 26.4 x 21 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, MI |
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| n.d. Nymph and Satyr black pencil, brown wash, brown paper, white highlights 19 x 23 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Sketch of a swan (?) graphite on paper 7 x 5.2 cm The British Museum, London |
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| n.d. Sketch of a lion's head: facing front Graphite? on paper 8 x 6.5 cm The British Museum, London |
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| n.d. Sketch of a fight with horses and men (atributed to Géricault) medium not given: graphite & watercolour? 15.6 x 20.3 cm The British Museum, London |
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| n.d. Sketch of a dog graphite on paper 6.7 x 11.2 cm The British Museum, London |
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| n.d. Sketch of a bulldog: sitting upright and facing front Graphite? on paper 9.7 x 4.7 cm The British Museum, London |
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| n.d. Seated Carabiniere holding a newborn child: naked man kneeling black pencil on paper (size not given) Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Studies: naked men pulling on a cable: military scene brown ink with pen, wash highlights 18.6 x 14.3 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Studies: child, woman; officer, seated figure, seen from behind graphite & watercolour on paper 29 x 21.2 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Studies of men in various positions pen & brown ink on paper 11 x 23.2 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Study of two horses black pencil on paper 19 x 24 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Study of a standing woman graphite, pen and brown ink, brush and brown and blue-grey wash, heightened with white gouache, on brown paper 20.8 x 13.3 cm The British Museum, London |
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| n.d. Study of a man black chalk with stumping on wove paper 16.3 x 13.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| n.d. Study of a lion oil on canvas 38.7 x 50.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York |
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| n.d. Study of a horse black pencil on paper 19.7 x 24.8 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Two hauling horses, seen from behind, and a third shown at mid-body level graphite on beige paper 19.2 x 23.9 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. The walk: English groom walking two horses graphite & watercolour on beige paper 22 x 31 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. The Piper lithograph on wove paper 42.4 x 34 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| n.d. The horse market: five horses on the stake black pencil, white gouache, brown wash & red chalk on paper 23 x 30 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. The French Blacksmith lithograph (size not given) Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museums, Cambridge, MA |
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| n.d. The drinking trough lithogrpah (size not given) Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museums, Cambridge, MA |
n.d. Sketchbook: Studies of figures and compositions based on antiquity. Pen & brown ink, brown wash on paper 14.7 x 19 cm, Louvre, Paris:
