Friday, April 1, 2022

 Théodore Géricault
(1791 - 1824)


Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault was a French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa. Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Théodore_Géricault

Le Radeau de La Méduse (The Raft of the Medusa)
1819
Oil on canvas
491 x 716 cm
Louvre
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