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The Raft of Medusa?

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The Raft of the Medusa is an oil painting of 1818-1819 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791-1824). Completed when the artist was just 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism. (Wikipedia)

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