Paris for the Holidays

Géricault

Posted on June 5, 2020 Updated on September 7, 2022

Théodore Géricault (Rouen, 1791 – Paris, 1824)
French Painter

In the Louvre’s Salle Mollien, among the rooms of Large Scale French Paintings, Théodore Géricault is a prominent artist
(I pronounce it “Jerico”)
His works include:
–The Raft of the Medusa his huge iconic historical painting was quite confrontational at the Paris Salon of 1819
-a series of horsemen (such as The Charging Chasseur), Géricault was a horseman himself, unfortunately a horse accident may have contributed to his early death at 32
-a series on the insane, dead animals and severed heads
(my La Chat Mort page is popular for some reason – as if there is a band called the Dead Cat)

Géricault’s image reclines atop a monument at his tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery

Raft of the Medusa Le Louvre

The Dead Cat Le Louvre

http://www.theodoregericault.org/raft-of-the-medusa/
Portrait of a Kleptomaniac, Evening: Landscape with an Aquaduct, The Charging Chasseur, Wounded Cuirassier and The Derby of Epsom