The likenesses of Correard and Savigny, as well as the ship Argus appear in earlier incarnations of this painting in which three figures at center pull themselves to their feet away from the dead and dying, while three men mount barrels and signal to the right with unfurled cloths.
This painting contains allusions to Baron Gros's Napoleon at Eylau and Fuseli's Count Ugolino, a hint at the activities preceding the depicted scene, and incorporates material from the artist's earlier Beaujon Hospital Studies. The likenesses of Correard and Savigny, as well as the ship Argus appear in earlier incarnations of this painting in which three figures at center pull themselves to their feet away from the dead and dying, while three men mount barrels and signal to the right with unfurled cloths. For ten points name this famous painting depicting an ad-hoc lifeboat off Senegal, a work of Theodore Gericault.
This painting contains allusions to Baron Gros's Napoleon at Eylau and Fuseli's Count Ugolino, a hint at the activities preceding the depicted scene, and incorporates material from the artist's earlier Beaujon Hospital Studies.
The Raft of the Medusa (Le Radeu de la Meduse{)}