The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse [lə ʁado d(ə) la medyz]) – originally titled Scène de Naufrage (Shipwreck Scene) – is an oil painting of 1818–19 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). [1]

Jan 4, 2025 · The Raft of the Medusa, painting (1819) by French Romantic painter Theodore Gericault depicting the survivors of a shipwreck adrift and starving on a raft. Gericault astonished viewers by painting, in harrowing detail, not an antique and noble subject but a …

Théodore Géricault, Raft of the Medusa, 1818–19, oil on canvas, 4.91 x 7.16m (Musée du Louvre, Paris) In 1819, a young man bolted through the streets of Paris. Years later, he said he must have looked crazy as he ran all the way home.

Jan 13, 2022 · The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault, currently located at the Louvre Museum, is regarded as a seminal work of French Romanticism. The Raft of Medusa painting portrays a scene that followed after the French naval ship Méduse‘s wreck, which went aground off the coastline of modern-day Mauritania on the 2nd of July, 1816. Following ...

Dec 12, 2023 · The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse [lə ʁado d(ə) la medyz]) is an oil painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). Completed when the artist was 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism.

Nov 24, 2024 · Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-1819, Louvre, Paris, France. Detail. Théodore Géricault completed The Raft of the Medusa when he was 27, and the work has become an icon of French Romanticism. It is a direct precursor of Delacroix’s Massacre at Chios and Liberty Leading the People.

Jun 23, 2021 · A wrenching scene of shipwrecked men helpless in the grips of the ocean, Théodore Géricault's 'The Raft of the Medusa' is heralded as one of the most influential works of French Romanticism.

Aug 19, 2023 · “The Raft of the Medusa” is a monumental painting by Théodore Géricault, created between 1818 and 1819. The work is an iconic representation of a tragic historical event that captured the public’s imagination and had a significant impact on French society during the early 19th century.

The imposing painting depicts a crowded and fragile raft on the sea. Not only the theme is unusual - the painting also stands out from so many others with its size dimension of more than 35 square meters.

Apr 24, 2019 · In 1816 the French naval ship ‘The Medusa’ was wrecked on a sandbar 100km off the west coast of Africa, due to the incompetence of the inexperienced captain Viscount Hugues Duroy de Chaumereys.