The Raft
$9.99
Having won a Gold Medal at the prestigious Salon for his painting Charging Chasseur - completed at the tender age of twenty-one - Theodore Gericault finds himself, seven years later, distracted and lovesick due to his secret affair with his benefactor-uncle's young wife, Alexandrine, still desperately searching for the subject of his next tableau.
Then he hears about the French frigate Medusa, shipwrecked off the shores of the West African coast. With tales of betrayal, madness, murder and cannibalism, this was a catastrophe that horrified the French public - and Gericault is duly fascinated. When he manages to track down two of the raft's survivors and invites them to his home to discover what really happened during those fifteen days at sea, Gericault knows he has finally found his subject.
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