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Géricault’s Star is on the Rise

Published on , by Ivane Payen

Disparaged during his lifetime and mourned after his death, Géricault still haunts auction houses.

Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), Boy Feeding Oats to an Unhitched Horse, Oil on canvas,... Géricault’s Star is on the Rise

Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), Boy Feeding Oats to an Unhitched Horse, Oil on canvas, 45,2 x 36,1 cm. Drouot, 15 June 2018. Beaussant Lefèvre
Result: €350,000

Géricault is a man of opposites: elusive yet famous, an admirer of Ingres and Raphael and leader of the Romantic school. The myth of the poorly understood artist was based on the painter whose masterpiece,…
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