The Raft of the Medusa<span> is an </span>oil painting<span> of 1818–1819 by the French </span>Romantic<span> painter and </span>lithographer Théodore Géricault<span> (1791–1824). Completed when the artist was 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism. At 491 cm × 716 cm (16' 1" × 23' 6"),</span><span> it is an over-life-size painting that depicts a moment from the aftermath of the wreck of the French naval </span><span>frigate Méduse</span><span>, which ran aground off the coast of today's </span>Mauritania<span> on 2 July 1816.</span>
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Claude Monet
Monet, Father of Impressionism. Claude Monet is perhaps the most famous of the Impressionist painters. While the movement takes its name from one of his paintings, he was not the first to paint in a style that would become known as Impressionism.