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The Severed Heads
At the Paris Salon of 1819, Géricault caused a sensation with his monumental work The Raft of Medusa. The painting featured the dead, the dying and the survivors of a French shipwreck off the African coast. This catastrophe and the government’s handling of it caused a political scandal in France. In preparation for the painting, Géricault made numerous studies of corpses and body parts – one of th…
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Provenance
- Presented 1918 by an association of donors
Identifier
- NM 2113
- 19173
Extent
- Mått 50 x 61 cm
Format
- Oil on canvas
- Oil painting
Providing country
- Sweden
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-01-11T14:09:16.366Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2017-01-11T14:26:47.423Z