Géricault, Théodore Syllabification: (Gé·ri·cault, Théodore)Pronunciation: /ˌZHerēˈkō/Definition of Géricault, Théodore (1791–1824), French painter; full name Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault. His most noted work, The Raft of the Medusa (1819), depicts the survivors of a famous 1816 shipwreck. Géricault, Théodore in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of Géricault, Théodore in the British & World English dictionary