Géricault

[zhey-ree-koh]

noun

1. (Jean Louis André) Théodore 1791–1824, French painter.

Géricault

/ ʒeriko /

noun

1. ( Jean Louis André ) Théodore (teɔdɔr). 1791–1824, French romantic painter, noted for his skill in capturing movement, esp of horses

Example Sentences

The 1816 wreck of the French frigate Medusa, from which just a handful of passengers survived after nearly two weeks on a makeshift raft, was still very recent history when Théodore Géricault painted the scene.

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And they certainly recall “heroic narratives found in American and European history paintings,” she added, such as Emanuel Leutze’s “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” which hangs at the Met, and Théodore Géricault’s stunning “The Raft of the Medusa,” which is in the collection of the Louvre.

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Indeed, she did not ask permission; she painted and let her work speak for itself, expecting to be put on equal footing with male painters like Eugène Delacroix and Théodore Géricault.

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One of the show’s least-known and greatest early paintings is the 1978 “Wreckage of the Medusa,” which takes us beyond Géricault’s masterpiece, “The Raft of the Medusa,” to the raft’s disintegration at sea — a gorgeous expanse of blue beneath a narrow band of pink and blue sky.

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There are classic painted works by Frédéric Bazille, Théodore Gericault and Eugène Delacroix in the exhibition, in a section devoted to portraiture.

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