出生于鲁昂，法国，里柯的英文体育艺术的传统，被教育卡尔·韦尔和古典人物组成由皮埃尔-纳西斯卡介苗，严谨的古典谁不赞成他的学生的性情冲动的认可还没有他的天赋。[1]里柯很快就离开了教室，选择在学习卢浮宫，在1810至1815年，他通过复制画鲁本斯，提香，委拉斯开兹和伦勃朗。在此期间，在卢浮宫他发现了一个活力，他发现，缺乏在当时的学校新古典主义。[1]他的多数时间花在在凡尔赛，在那里，他发现了王宫马厩开给他，在那里他获得了他的知识的解剖学和马的动作。

里柯的第一个主要工作，在充电狩猎庄园，在此次展出的巴黎沙龙 1812年，鲁本斯透露的风格和当代题材的描绘感兴趣的影响。这个年轻的成功，雄心勃勃，巨大的，随之而来的方向改变：在未来几年里，Géricault制作了一系列关于马和骑兵的小型研究。[3]他表现出受伤的胸甲骑兵在沙龙于1814年，工作更加吃力，少好评。[3]里柯在一阵失望进入军队，服役在凡尔赛的驻军时间。[2]在近两年随后1814年沙龙，他也经历了人物的构造和构成，而同时证明了戏剧和表现力是个人偏好的自我强加的研究。[4]

一趟佛罗伦萨，罗马和那不勒斯（1816年至1817年），部分提示的愿望，从一个浪漫的纠缠与他的姑姑逃离，[5]点燃了迷恋米开朗基罗。罗马本身激发了一个巨大的画布上的准备，在Barberi马的比赛，许诺史诗组成和抽象主题的作品是“完全没有在它的时间并行。” [6]在活动现场，里柯从未完成的绘画，返回法国。1821年，他画泻的德比。

他回到法国在1821年后，席里柯的灵感画了一系列的疯狂十肖像，朋友的患者，医生艾蒂安-让Georget，在先锋精神药品，每个主题表现出不同的苦恼。[12]有来自系列，包括其余五个人像疯女人。这些画作值得注意的是他们的勇敢的风格，表现的现实主义，以及他们的个人的心理不适的记录，使得所有更加尖锐的疯狂的Géricault的家庭的历史，以及艺术家自己脆弱的心理健康。[13]他对人类主体的观察并不局限于生活，对于一些显着的静物头颅和光绘研究四肢，也被归因于艺术家。[14]里柯的最后努力朝着几个史诗成分的初步研究，包括定向西班牙宗教裁判所的门开幕和非洲奴隶贸易。[15]在筹备图纸显示的雄心的作品，但里柯的减弱健康干预。骑事故和慢性减弱结核感染，里柯在巴黎去世于1824年的痛苦经过长时间。他的铜像斜倚，刷在手，他的坟墓拉雪兹神父公墓位于巴黎，上述的低浮雕面板梅杜萨之筏。

Born in Rouen, France, the English Gericault sports art tradition, education is Karl Weir and the classical characters composed by Pierre Onassis - BCG, rigorous classical who did not approve of his students' temperament impulse has not recognized his talent. [1] Gericault soon left the classroom, in Le Louvre Museum, in 1810 and 1815, he passed a copy of a painting of Lubensi, Titian, Velazquez and Rembrandt. During this period, he found a vitality in Le Louvre Museum, he found that the lack of Neo classicism in the school at that time. [1] spent most of his time in Versailles, where he found the Royal stables open to him, where he acquired his knowledge of anatomy and horse movements.
The first major work Gericault, in charge of hunting manor, the exhibition in the Paris salon in 1812, Lubensi revealed the style and contemporary themes depicting the influence of interest. The success of this young, ambitious, huge, and consequent direction change: in the next few years, G ricault made a series of small studies on horses and cavalry. [3] he showed the injured troops at the salon in 1814, work harder, less. [3] Gericault entered the army in a burst of disappointment, served in the garrison of versailles. [2] in the last two years after the salon in 1814, he also experienced the structure and composition of the characters, and at the same time proved that drama and expressiveness are self imposed research on personal preference. [4]
A trip to Florence, Rome and Naples (1816 to 1817), in part prompted by the desire to escape from a romantic entanglement with his aunt, [5] ignited a fascination with Michelangelo. Rome itself has inspired a huge canvas on the preparation of the Barberi horse race, which promises epic composition and abstract themes of the works that are "not completely parallel in its time."." [6] in the event, Gericault never finished painting, returned to france. In 1821, he drew the derby.
He returned to France in 1821, Xilike inspiration painted a series of portraits of friends crazy ten, with doctor Etienne Jean Georget, a pioneer in psychotropic drugs, each subject showed different distress. [12] has come from the series, including the remaining five people like crazy woman. These paintings are notable for their brave performance style, realism, and record their personal psychological discomfort, made all the more sharp crazy G ricault's family history, and the artist's own fragile mental health. [13] his observation of the human subject is not limited to life, for some significant still heads and painted on limbs, was also attributed to the artist. The last effort toward Gericault [14] preliminary study of several epic components, including the orientation of the Spanish Inquisition door opening and the African slave trade. [15] in the preparation of drawings showing the ambitious works, but weakened Gericault's health intervention. By accident and chronic weakened TB infection, Gericault died in Paris in 1824 after a long time of pain. His statue recline, brush in hand, his grave Pere Lachaise cemetery is located in Paris, the low relief panel Mei Du Sazhi raft.