{"product_id":"the-raft-of-the-medusa-theodore-gericault","title":"The Raft of the Medusa — Théodore Géricault","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-size:1.12rem;line-height:1.55;margin:0 0 1.3em;color:#2b2723\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of the largest and angriest paintings in the Louvre, and every figure on that raft was a real person.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"font-size:.78rem;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#8a8177;margin:0 0 .8em\"\u003eThe story\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.7;margin:0 0 1em;color:#3a3530\"\u003eIn 1816 the French frigate Méduse ran aground off the coast of Senegal because her captain had been given the command through politics rather than seamanship. The officers took the lifeboats. One hundred and forty-seven people were put onto a raft built from the ship's timbers and towed behind — until somebody cut the rope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.7;margin:0 0 1em;color:#3a3530\"\u003eThirteen days later, fifteen were still alive. What happened in between became a national scandal that nearly brought down a government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.7;margin:0 0 1em;color:#3a3530\"\u003eGéricault was twenty-seven. He tracked down survivors and interviewed them. He had the raft's own carpenter build him a scale model. He borrowed limbs and heads from a hospital morgue and kept them in his studio until he could paint dead flesh from life. He shaved his head so he would be too embarrassed to go out, and finished it in eight months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.7;margin:0 0 1em;color:#3a3530\"\u003eThe figure waving the cloth at the horizon is reaching for a ship that had already passed them once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-left:3px solid #c9a227;padding:.2em 0 .2em 1em;margin:1.6em 0;color:#5a5248\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnormous drama in a small frame. Suits a hallway, a stairwell, or any wall that can take a dark picture.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"font-size:.78rem;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#8a8177;margin:0 0 .7em\"\u003eWhat arrives\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"margin:0 0 1.4em;padding-left:1.1em;line-height:1.7\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted on canvas and set in a wooden frame — not a poster, not paper behind glass.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade to order after you buy it, then shipped worldwide.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThéodore Géricault, 1818–19. Public domain — free to reproduce, which is the only reason a canvas like this can cost what it does.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReproduced from a full-resolution scan of the original painting.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"font-size:.78rem;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#8a8177;margin:0 0 .7em\"\u003eGood to know\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.65;color:#5a5248;margin:0 0 1.4em\"\u003eScreens are backlit and canvas is not. Colours read deeper and softer on the wall than they do here. Sizes are the framed dimensions. This painting is wider than it is tall, and the sizes below match its proportions almost exactly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;padding:.75em 1em;background:#f6f2e8;border-radius:4px;font-size:.92rem;color:#5a5248\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color:#2b2723\"\u003eBuy any two prints, the third is half price.\u003c\/strong\u003e Applied automatically at checkout — no code needed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin:2.6em 0 0;padding:26px 22px 24px;background:#F5F0E8;border:1px solid #E6E1DA;border-radius:18px\"\u003e\n  \u003cdiv style=\"margin:0 0 .55em\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/paintings-with-a-story\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-size:.7rem;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:700;color:#8A6D1F;background:#F3EBD9;border:1px solid #E4D8BC;border-radius:999px;padding:.42em .9em\"\u003ePaintings with a Story · see the set\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n  \u003ch3 style=\"font-family:Fraunces,Georgia,serif;font-size:1.35rem;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:-.02em;line-height:1.2;margin:0 0 .4em;color:#2B2723\"\u003eFinish the wall\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"line-height:1.6;color:#5A5248;margin:0 0 1.3em;max-width:60ch;font-size:.96rem\"\u003eFour pictures worth owning for what happened in them. 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