Cheval turc dans une écurie — Théodore Gericault

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Artist: Théodore Gericault
Date: 1811
Location: Department of Paintings of the Louvre

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Théodore Gericault

Théodore Géricault, a pioneer of Romanticism, shocked the Paris Salon with his monumental and controversial painting, "The Raft of the Medusa."

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