File:Jean Louis Théodore Géricault 002.jpg

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Artist



Alternative names	Théodore Géricault
Description	French painter
Date of birth/death	26 September 1791	26 January 1824
Location of birth/death	Rouen	Paris
Work location	Paris, England
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Title

French: Le Radeau de la Méduse
The Raft of the Medusa

Object type

Painting

Date

1818 and 1819

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

491 × 716 cm (193.3 × 281.9 in)

Current location

( Inventory) Louvre Museum

	Native name	Musée du Louvre
	Location	Paris
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 37.42″ N, 2° 20′ 15.36″ E
	Established	1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority control	WorldCat

Peinture française, room 77: Mollien. Denon, 1 ^st floor.
This work is part of the collections of the Louvre (Department of Paintings).

Accession number

INV 4884

References

Musée du Louvre, Atlas database: entry 22541
Joconde database: entry 000PE001303

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Photographer

Source

The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

Permission
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The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by The Yorck Project. The compilation copyright is held by Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

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