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Théodore Géricault

1791 - 1824

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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 968,926 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

Among painters, Théodore Géricault ranks 65 out of 1,421Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Théodore Géricault ranks 5Before 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 3Before 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.

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In France

Among people born in France, Théodore Géricault ranks 187 out of 6,011Before 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).

Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Théodore Géricault ranks 17Before 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).