Théodore Géricault (Rouen 1791-Paris 1824), the Bicentennial Colloquium – Courtesy Bruno Chenique, UFE expert, Paris 2024
Under the scientific direction of our colleague, Bruno Chenique, Doctor of Art History, expert on Théodore Géricault, and Gaëlle Rio, director of the Musée de la Vie romantique, Rouen will host the first part of this event. It will allow the Rouen painter to be resurrected in the image of the monumental statue of Géricault emerging from his tomb, which Charles Drouet dedicated to him in 1861 and which, for a long time, adorned one of the squares in the city of Rouen. Paris will host the second part of the colloquium, as part of the exhibition that the Musée de la Vie romantique is organizing from May 15 to September 15, 2024, on Géricault’s Horses, a vast exploration of a fetish animal that the artist depicted throughout his life, giving it an exceptional and innovative political, warlike, industrial, social, sexual, and symbolic significance. The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen will present some of Géricault’s most beautiful drawings to the public.
Our colleague Virginie Cauchi, Doctor of Art History, University Paris IV – Sorbonne, expert on Eugène Delacroix, will speak on May 31 – title of her presentation: “When Delacroix’s Lions Devour Géricault’s Horses: A Bestiary of Flesh and Blood”