15 septembre 2006
GERICAULT BIOGRAPHY
Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault was born in Rouen on 26 September 1791, in a family of the upper middle-class, the only child of Georges and Louise Caruel Géricault. In 1796 the family moved to Paris street of the University, where Théodore completed his studie
s at the imperial college. In 1808 he entered Carle Vernet's studio as an apprentice, it become acquainted there with his son, Horace Vernet. During this period, it studies Rubens and the Venetian Masters, whom it copies abundantly, but also Gros and Prud' hon works, two painters resulting from the neoclassicism. After two years with Vernet, he transferred to Guérin's atelier. In the workshop of the painter Pierre-Narcisse Guerin, Géricault meets Ary Sheffer and later Eugene Delacroix. It frequently goes in his uncle Jean-baptiste Caruel, castle of "Grand Chesnay", and is impassioned for the horses which it starts to draw with the imperial Stables of Versailles before being registered, on February 5 1811, at the "Ecole des Beaux-Arts" of Paris. In 1812 he participated in the Salon with his painting The Charging Chasseur.In 1814, Géricault gets excited of Alexandrine Caruel, the young wife of its maternal uncle, Jean-baptiste Caruel. This connection, which will last several years and will produce a son, Hippolyte George, proves to be disastrous for the artist. After this tormented love affair, Théodore decided to leave for Italy where he stayed from the autumn of 1816 to the autumn of the following year.To Rome, it returns visit to Ingres and admires the work of Michel-Angel. Upon his return to Paris he worked on lithographs of military subjects and scenes of Roman life. Between 1818 and 1819 he worked on the large canvas, The Raft of the Medusa, which aroused conflicting reactions when it was exhibited at the Salon. After he completed this difficult painting the artist went to London with the draftsman Charlet. In June 1820 The Raft of the Medusa was shown at the Egyptian Hall, London and met with success. The painter meets Constable and paints the Derby of Epsom. After having visited the exiled David in Brussels Théodore returned to England. During his second London stay he published a series of lithographs entitled Various Subjects Drawn From and on Stone. At the end of 1822 he moved back to Paris definitively to the n° 23 of the street of the Martyrs (9°). His return home was clouded by some unlucky business investments and two serious riding accidents. In spite of his precarious health he did several lithographs and began the series of portraits of the mentally afflicted for doctor Etienne-Jean Georget (1822) specialist at the hospital of Salpétrière. Immobilized, Géricault prepared drawings for some paintings and illustrated Byron's poems (1823). He died on 26 January 1824 at the age of thirty-two in Paris home, in the arms of his friend the painter Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy and Colonels Bro and Brack. Two of his last paintings, Village Forge and Stable Boy were shown at the Salon of that year as a tribute to his memory. That same year the Louvre purchased The Raft of the Medusa, through the mediation of Fourbin and Dedreux-Dorcy. He is buried with the "Père Lachaise" cemetery in Paris, a statue of bronze decorates his burial. Romantic artist, his short and tormented life gave rise to many passions, today still.
More (french) : Biographie critique du peintre mémoires Alexandre Dumas
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