Brief Biography-Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault was born in Rouen in 1791. He studied under Carle Vernet and Pierre-Narcisse Guérin in Paris, but he preferred to study master’s paintings in the Louvre and was significantly influenced by Rubens and Gros. He joined the Jockey Club and acquired a studio with his interest in painting horses. In 1814, Géricault served with the Royal Musketeers before going to Italy in 1816. There he copied old masters in Florence and Rome, and on his return to Paris, he veered from painting animals to historical works. He produced his best-known masterpiece, The Raft of Medusa, and the Louvre exhibited it in 1819. When Géricault went to England in 1820, his work was well-received, doing lithographs of horses, London Street, and race scenes. In Paris, he painted several pictures of inmates in a Paris asylum for a treatise by Étienne-Jean Georget, a psychiatrist friend. Studies of the slave trade and the inquisition were his last endeavours. Following a fall from a horse, his health failed, and he died in 1824.