The despondent man with the red shirt draped over his head sits with his back to the commotion.
The despondent man with the red shirt draped over his head sits with his back to the commotion. While some passengers have stripped their clothes and are waving to the distant boat in the upper right, the foreground is littered with the bodies of the deceased. This painting was not received well upon its 1819 debut as it depicted the decimated survivors of a contemporary French shipwreck. FTP, what was this masterpiece of Theodore Gericault?
The despondent man with the red shirt draped over his head sits with his back to the commotion.
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