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| Théodore Géricault Head of a Guillotined Man ca. 1818-19 oil on panel Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Théodore Géricault Portrait Study of a Youth ca. 1819-20 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Théodore Géricault Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1818 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Théodore Géricault Head of a Lion ca. 1819 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Théodore Géricault Portrait of an Artist in his Studio ca. 1820 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
"Géricault is consistently called a genius who died on the brink of full creative flower. His surviving works in every medium have always eluded categorization. Independent and undogmatic, he acted with both impetuous engagement and rigorous discipline, moved easily from classical to modern subjects, and integrated scrupulous preliminary studies with inspired invention, no matter the subject. He evolved a powerful coalition of solid draftsmanly structure, a light-catching, palpable three-dimensionality, and a painterly touch and palette. Géricault became one of the following generation's most haunting artistic paradigms, the ill-fated engaged genius. For many, his work signaled a brilliant path for the art of the future to negotiate between tradition and innovation."
– from a biographical essay be Suzanne Glover Lindsay in the Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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| Théodore Géricault Classical Nudes ca. 1814-15 wash drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Théodore Géricault Parents mourning over their Dead Son 1819 wash drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| Théodore Géricault Entombment ca. 1816-17 wash drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| Théodore Géricault Figure-studies (possibly for The Death of Hector) ca. 1817 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| Théodore Géricault Satyr and Nymph 1817 wash drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Théodore Géricault Scene of the Plague ca. 1808-1812 wash drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Théodore Géricault Wagon laden with Wounded Soldiers 1818 lithograph Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Théodore Géricault The Tempest ca. 1821-23 watercolor Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Théodore Géricault Scène de Déluge ca. 1818 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |