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In France. 585 from human life, and like Pieter de Hooch raised his less familiar subjects to the rank of historic pictures. Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791 — 1824) was a pupil of Carle Vernet and Pierre Guerin. As he died very young, it is difficult to understand how it hap- Fig. 176. — Divine Justice and Vengeance pursuing Crime. By Prud'hon. In the Louvre. pened that he played so important a part in French art, and exerted such influence on the whole school. His works in the Louvre, the Chasseur de la Garde im- perialc and the Cuirassier hlesse, belong to the period when,
