1791 - 1824
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (French: [ʒɑ̃ lwi 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 980,968 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Théodore Géricault is the 65th most popular painter (down from 62nd in 2019), the 187th 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 65 out of 1,421. Before him are Kazimir Malevich, Anthony van Dyck, Giorgione, Jackson Pollock, Giovanni Bellini, and Domenico Ghirlandaio. After him are Alfred Sisley, Piero della Francesca, Henri Rousseau, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, and Alphonse Mucha.
1879 - 1935
HPI: 75.00
Rank: 59
1599 - 1641
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 60
1478 - 1510
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 61
1912 - 1956
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 62
1430 - 1516
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 63
1448 - 1494
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 64
1791 - 1824
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 65
1839 - 1899
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 66
1415 - 1492
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 67
1844 - 1910
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 68
1472 - 1553
HPI: 73.57
Rank: 69
1390 - 1464
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 70
1860 - 1939
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 71
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, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, James Buchanan, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Franz Bopp, Francesco Hayez, and Eugène Scribe. Among people deceased in 1824, Théodore Géricault ranks 3. Before him are Lord Byron and Louis XVIII of France. After him are Eugène de Beauharnais, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, James Parkinson, Anne Catherine Emmerich, Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, Agustín de Iturbide, Giovanni Battista Viotti, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, and Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca.
1791 - 1867
HPI: 84.47
Rank: 1
1791 - 1847
HPI: 77.99
Rank: 2
1791 - 1871
HPI: 77.95
Rank: 3
1791 - 1872
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 4
1791 - 1824
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 5
1791 - 1857
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 6
1791 - 1844
HPI: 69.78
Rank: 7
1791 - 1868
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 8
1791 - 1864
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 9
1791 - 1867
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 10
1791 - 1882
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 11
1791 - 1861
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 12
1788 - 1824
HPI: 81.31
Rank: 1
1755 - 1824
HPI: 76.04
Rank: 2
1791 - 1824
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 3
1781 - 1824
HPI: 71.07
Rank: 4
1769 - 1824
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 5
1755 - 1824
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 6
1774 - 1824
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 7
1759 - 1824
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 8
1783 - 1824
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 9
1755 - 1824
HPI: 61.11
Rank: 10
1767 - 1824
HPI: 60.61
Rank: 11
1782 - 1824
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Théodore Géricault ranks 187 out of 6,011. Before him are Louis de Broglie (1892), Gérard Depardieu (1948), Jean-Luc Godard (1930), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805). After him are Louis VII of France (1120), Alfred Sisley (1839), Alfred Dreyfus (1859), Guy of Lusignan (1150), Roland Barthes (1915), and André Breton (1896).
1892 - 1987
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 181
1948 - Present
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 182
1930 - 2022
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 183
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 184
1789 - 1857
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 185
1805 - 1859
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 186
1791 - 1824
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 187
1120 - 1180
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 188
1839 - 1899
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 189
1859 - 1935
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 190
1150 - 1194
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 191
1915 - 1980
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 192
1896 - 1966
HPI: 73.89
Rank: 193
Among painters born in France, Théodore Géricault ranks 17. Before him are Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Georges Braque (1882), Georges Seurat (1859), and Jean-François Millet (1814). After him are Alfred Sisley (1839), Henri Rousseau (1844), Gustave Doré (1832), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), François Boucher (1703), and Honoré Daumier (1808).
1841 - 1919
HPI: 77.40
Rank: 11
1864 - 1901
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 12
1594 - 1665
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 13
1882 - 1963
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 14
1859 - 1891
HPI: 75.42
Rank: 15
1814 - 1875
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 16
1791 - 1824
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 17
1839 - 1899
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 18
1844 - 1910
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 19
1832 - 1883
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 20
1796 - 1875
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 21
1703 - 1770
HPI: 72.68
Rank: 22
1808 - 1879
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 23