This painting was inspired by the artist's friendship with the surgeon Henri Savigny and was an indictment of the vicomte de Chaumareys.
This painting was inspired by the artist's friendship with the surgeon Henri Savigny and was an indictment of the vicomte de Chaumareys. Its artist hired Alexandre Correard to build a realistic scale model of its subject. This painting's exhibition at London's Egyptian Hall was more successful than its debut at the 1819 Paris Salon. In this painting's bottom-left, a gray-haired father adopts a Thinker pose and grasps his son's (*) pallid body. The artist arranged the figures in this painting in two pyramidal structures and made preparatory sketches of corpses and severed body parts. It depicts a black man waving a red and white cloth to attract the attention of a distant ship. For 10 points, name this Theodore Gericault painting of survivors of a shipwreck.
This painting was inspired by the artist's friendship with the surgeon Henri Savigny and was an indictment of the vicomte de Chaumareys.
The Raft of the Medusa [or Le Radeau de la Meduse]