Théodore Géricault

1791 - 1824

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

Movement: Romanticism

Country of citizenship: France

Languages spoken, written or signed: Portuguese, French

Educated at: Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Collège Stanislas de Paris

Occupation: painter, graphic artist, sculptor, lithographer, architectural draftsperson, draftsperson, visual artist

Student of: Carle Vernet, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin

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Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (French: [ʒɑ̃lwi ɑ̃dʁe teɔdɔʁ ʒeʁiko]; 26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was a French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa. Despite his short life, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. Source: Wikipedia (en)