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Le Chat Mort (Géricault)

Posted on July 21, 2014 Updated on June 7, 2020

(le shah morr)

The Dead Cat Le Louvre

According to my Louvre Calendar, Le Chat Mort was acquired in 2003 and at one time “bought from a second-hand dealer who had no idea of the treasure in his hand”

Sully Wing
2nd Floor
Room 61

Théodore Géricault (1791 – 1824)
(Tay-oh-DOOR jay-ree-KO)

1st Major Work: The Charging Chasseur and the Wounded Cuirassier
Known for: The Raft of the Medusa (1818)

Other areas of specialization:
10 Portraits of the Insane
Still Lives of Severed Heads and Limbs
Anatomy and Action of Horses

Géricault’s Grave at Pere Lachaise

Also See:
Le Singe Peintre (The Monkey Painter) Le Louvre
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin French Painter
Chat Assis (Seated Cat) Le Louvre
Egyptian Antiquity
Dora Maar au Chat (Dora Maar with Cat)
Pablo Picasso (1941)

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