In 1791 he was born Rouen, France but went to school in Paris. He was a classmate of Delacroix, one of the greatest French Romanticist painters ever, both in the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and at the Beaux-Arts where he studied with Vernet and Guerin. In 1812, he attracted a lot of attention with one of his soon to be masterpieces Officier de Chasseurs a Cheval, a heroic man wearing a beautifully ornamented uniform on a powerful white horse. Two Years later he shows yet another one containing a soldier and horse but this time the horse being a very tar blackish brown and both seem to be very scared. Gericault loved horses and soldiers so much that for a Hundred Days he decided to join the Musketeers to follow the King to Bethune. He eagerly return to once again to continue his artwork and created Course des Chevaux Libres which this did not have soldiers but still had horses in them. One of His Last Masterpieces the Radeau De La Meduse or The Raft of the Medusa was one that showed his zealous and scientific study of the human form.....and there were no horses. sadly He died at a very young age in 1824 which he was only thirty-three.
"Til Next time peoples.
Oh yeah and RAFT OF MEDUSA!!!
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