The Rescue of the Survivors of the Raft of the Medusa
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault · c. 1818 · Pen and brown ink, over traces of graphite, on tan wove paper
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
The Rescue of the Survivors of the Raft of the Medusa is a public-domain drawing by Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault, dated c. 1818. Pen and brown ink, over traces of graphite, on tan wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“The Rescue of the Survivors of the Raft of the Medusa” (c. 1818) is by Géricault or a print after a picture of his. Many of the sheets are lithographs of horses or studies of the body, not the Raft.
About the artist
Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) was a French Romantic painter. The Raft of the Medusa is the famous canvas. He also made lithographs of horses and of people in hospitals.
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