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- Birth nameJéan-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault
- Théodore Géricault was born on September 26, 1791 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France. He was an actor, known for Romantic Versus Classical Art (1973) and Bir Resim Bir Hikaye (2019). He died on January 26, 1824 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
- Despite his short life, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement.
- While in London, Géricault witnessed urban poverty, made drawings of his impressions, and published lithographs based on these observations which were free of sentimentality. He associated much there with Charlet, the lithographer and caricaturist.
- Géricault's last efforts were directed toward preliminary studies for several epic compositions, including the Opening of the Doors of the Spanish Inquisition and the African Slave Trade.
- In 1821, while still in England, he painted The Derby of Epsom.
- Théodore Géricault was a French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa.
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