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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, whose best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Théodore Géricault has received more than 1,035,863 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Théodore Géricault is the 62nd most popular painter (up from 65th in 2019), the 165th most popular biography from France (up from 187th in 2019) and the 16th 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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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Théodore Géricault ranks 62 out of 2,023. Before him are Giorgione, Artemisia Gentileschi, Jean-François Millet, Egon Schiele, Domenico Ghirlandaio, and Kazimir Malevich. After him are Alphonse Mucha, Giovanni Bellini, Francis Bacon, Frans Hals, Georges Seurat, and Henri Rousseau.

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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 Carl Czerny, James Buchanan, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Franz Bopp, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Francesco Hayez, and Johann Franz Encke. Among people deceased in 1824, Théodore Géricault ranks 4. Before him are Lord Byron, Louis XVIII of France, and Eugène de Beauharnais. After him are Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, Anne Catherine Emmerich, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Agustín de Iturbide, James Parkinson, Giovanni Battista Viotti, Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, and Rama II of Siam.

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In France

Among people born in France, Théodore Géricault ranks 165 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Bourdieu (1930), François Viète (1540), Jacques Cartier (1491), Peter Abelard (1079), Philip VI of France (1293), and Pope Martin IV (1220). After him are Jacques Cousteau (1910), Henry Cavendish (1731), Jean Racine (1639), Tacitus (54), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), and Edward IV of England (1442).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Théodore Géricault ranks 16. Before him are Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Gustave Courbet (1819), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Georges Braque (1882), and Jean-François Millet (1814). After him are Georges Seurat (1859), Henri Rousseau (1844), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), Gustave Doré (1832), François Boucher (1703), and Alfred Sisley (1839).

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