By: Anna Hetisimer, Patrick Bollman, Anderson Wey Theodore Gericault By: Anna Hetisimer, Patrick Bollman, Anderson Wey

About Biography: Born in Rouen, France and trained with Carle Vernet as an aspiring sporting painter. He educated himself in painting by copying the styles of Rubens, Titian, Rembrandt at the Louvre. After his return to France, he was inspired to paint 10 of the insane, the patients of a friend. His best painting before 1820 was the raft of Medusa. He was born September 26, 1791 and died in January 29, 1824 Theodore Gericault, by Alexandre-Marie Colin

Raft of Medusa* This painting depicts the wreck of a French frigate off the coast of Senegal in 1816, with over a 150 soldiers on board. This was drawn from the accounts of the two survivors of The Medusa. He painted this in 1819 in preparation for an exhibition at the Salon of 1819.

Portraits of the Insane Out of the ten portraits only five are remaining. This is “The Portrait of a Kleptomaniac” , painted in 1822, oil on canvas. This was one of the ten portraits commissioned for Etienne-Jean Georget. All of these painting were painted to represent the models of the mental illness. https://play.kahoot.it/#/?quizId=82286b64-5836-4016-b64b-ccd020a1b20a This is the most well known of the “Portraits if Insanity”. This one is the “A Woman Suffering from Obsessive Envy” . He was inspired to start this portrait series because both his grandfather and his uncle died insane men. There is nothing known about the origination of these portraits. It was painted between 1819 and 1820. They were always painted with a ¾ view and heavy shadowing on the faces.