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Théodore Géricault
1823 - 1825
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
196; 350; 256; 242
About this artwork
collector's mark: Lugt 2760
About the Artist
Théodore Géricault · 1791–1824
Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) stands as one of the most influential pioneers of French Romanticism, despite a career tragically cut short at age thirty-two. Born in Rouen on September 26, 1791, into a wealthy family, Géricault's brief but intense artistic life transformed the trajectory of nineteenth-century European painting. Géricault began his formal training in 1808 under Carle Vernet, maste...