The Raft of the Medusa
The Raft of the Medusa (or Scène de Naufrage) is an oil painting of 1818–19 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault. It depicts the aftermath of the wreck of the French naval frigate Méduse, which ran aground off the coast of today’s Mauritania on 2 July 1816. At least 147 people were set adrift on a hurriedly...