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What is Géricault's best-known painting?

  • The Raft of the Medusa

  • Liberty Leading the People

  • The Death of Sardanapalus

  • The Third of May 1808

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The Raft of the Medusa, Théodore Géricault's most renowned painting, depicts the harrowing aftermath of a French naval disaster in 1816. The work captures the desperation and suffering of the survivors as they cling to a makeshift raft, abandoned at sea for days.
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