An old man with a rag on his head holds easily on to the naked man in the lower left.
An old man with a rag on his head holds easily on to the naked man in the lower left. The artist of this painting read Savigny and Correard, and then interviewed them. He even sought out the carpenter who survived and had him build a model of his original contraption. In the 1819 Salon catalogue obliquely labeled the painting "Scene of Shipwreck," perhaps to avoid reference to the naval incompetence and callousness that led to a very real tragedy. FTP name this masterpiece by Theodore Gericault.
An old man with a rag on his head holds easily on to the naked man in the lower left.
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