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Théodore Géricault

1791 - 1824

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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. His best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa. Despite his short life, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Théodore Géricault is the 68th most popular painter (down from 62nd in 2019), the 200th most popular biography from France (down from 165th in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Painter.

Théodore Géricault is most famous for his painting "The Raft of the Medusa," which depicts the aftermath of a shipwreck.

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Among painters, Théodore Géricault ranks 68 out of 2,023. Before him are Kazimir Malevich, Jean-François Millet, Piero della Francesca, J. M. W. Turner, Andrea Mantegna, and Lucas Cranach the Elder. After him are Francisco de Zurbarán, Ilya Repin, Frans Hals, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Henri Rousseau, and Pietro Perugino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Théodore Géricault ranks 5. Before him are Michael Faraday, Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Charles Babbage, and Samuel Morse. After him are James Buchanan, Carl Czerny, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Franz Bopp, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Francesco Hayez, and Johann Franz Encke. Among people deceased in 1824, Théodore Géricault ranks 3. Before him are Louis XVIII of France, and Lord Byron. After him are Eugène de Beauharnais, Anne Catherine Emmerich, Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, James Parkinson, Agustín de Iturbide, Giovanni Battista Viotti, Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca, and Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Théodore Géricault ranks 200 out of 6,770. Before him are André Breton (1896), Pope Urban VI (1318), Pierre Bourdieu (1930), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Henry II of England (1133), and Alain Prost (1955). After him are Baldwin I, Latin Emperor (1172), Jean Bodin (1530), Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), Philip VI of France (1293), Charles Gounod (1818), and Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Théodore Géricault ranks 17. Before him are Gustave Courbet (1819), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Georges Braque (1882), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), and Jean-François Millet (1814). After him are Henri Rousseau (1844), Alfred Sisley (1839), Gustave Doré (1832), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), Georges Seurat (1859), and Berthe Morisot (1841).

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