Shipwreck of the Meduse
Théodore Gericault and Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet · 1820 · lithograph
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About this picture
Shipwreck of the Meduse is a public-domain illustration by Théodore Gericault and Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet, dated 1820. Lithograph. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Shipwreck of the Meduse” (1820) 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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