COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0009057
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Work Title (display):
Despair and Cannibalism on the Raft
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1818
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2011-11-07
Work Creator (display):
Theodore Gericault (French, 1791-1824)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
Gericault grew up with Napoleon's triumphs and reached maturity at the time of the empire's decline, dying after only 12 working years in the troubled early period of the Restoration. He was frequently ill, probably with tuberculosis. He also suffered several riding accidents and seemed self-destructive in terms of endangering his health and making unwise financial speculations and expenditures. When he died, he was known to the public only by the three paintings he had exhibited at the Salon in Paris. He had also been active in London. He left behind 200 paintings and 1600 other works that made him famous posthumously and were influential to later artists. His style is characterized by an attempt to depict contemporary events in a grand scale and emotional tone, using influences of both the Romantic and the Neo-classical styles to create an individual style of his own. (ULAN)
Work Style Period:
Romantic (modern European styles)
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Romantic (modern European styles)
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false
Work Style Period:
19th century
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19th century
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Work Subject:
violence
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violence
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Work Subject:
figures
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figures
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
boats
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boats
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
oceans
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oceans
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
death
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death
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
men (male humans)
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men (male humans)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
starvation
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starvation
Work Subject
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Work Subject:
corpses
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corpses
Work Subject
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Work Subject:
cannibalism
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cannibalism
Work Subject
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Work Subject:
despair
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despair
Work Subject
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Work Worktype:
drawings
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drawings
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Work Category (VRC classification):
drawings
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drawings
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Measurements (display):
28.5 cm (H) x 38.5 cm (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
private collection
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Paris, France
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Alhadeff, Albert. The Raft of the Medusa Gericault, Art, and Race. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2002. N. pag. Print.
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Alhadeff, Albert. The Raft of the Medusa Gericault, Art, and Race. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2002. N. pag. Print.
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false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
3-7913-2782-8
Image Source Reproduction page number:
36
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
12
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
unknown
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
public domain
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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