Oil on canvas, 491 × 716 cm, painted by Théodore Géricault in 1819, when
he was 27. It shows the moment the starving survivors on the raft from
the frigate Méduse (wrecked in July 1816 off the coast of Mauritania)
spot the ship that will pick them up on the horizon. Of the 147 who
climbed onto the improvised raft, 15 came through 13 days of cannibalism
and violence. It is in the Louvre.
