The second lost painting in the series of Géricault's monomania has been found



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## The second lost painting in the series of Géricault's monomania has been found

05/09/2022 |
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Javier S. Burgos, distinguished researcher at the Predepartmental Unit of Medicine of the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, has discovered the second unpublished monomania of the French master of Romanticism Théodore Géricault, two hundred years after it was painted and which remained hidden. The scientist has published a letter in the prestigious journal *The Lancet Neurology,* in the "Correspondence" section, where he explains how he has come across it.

The painting is a portrait of a mentally ill person from the 19th century and belongs to a series of ten portraits entitled "The monomaniacs", of which only five works were known until last year, when the same researcher identified the sixth painting. The portrait depicts a drunken monomaniac, a type of mental illness according to the psychiatry of that time, and adds drunkenness to the other six known monomanias: envy, obsessive fixation, compulsive gambling, kleptomania, child abduction and religious melancholy.

The author of *The Raft of the Medusa*, Théodore Géricault, painted around 1823 a famous series of ten portraits of mentally ill inmates in Parisian psychiatric institutions, known as "The monomaniacs". Until last year, only five of these ten portraits, exhibited in the world's leading museums, had been found. They depict the monomanias of envy, gambling, obsessive fixation, kleptomania and child abduction.

The portraits, commissioned by the psychiatrist Étienne-Jean Georget from the painter Théodore Géricault in the early 19th century to immortalise the physiognomic expressions of ten of his patients, were acquired after his death by two of his pupils, known only as "Lachèze" and "Maréchal", who divided them into two sets of five. Until last year only those owned by Lachèze were known. The clinical descriptions of the medical conditions depicted in these paintings were made by the alienists of the time in their treatises.

The other five portraits had remained hidden since they were painted in the 19th century, although they are assumed to have existed because of a letter published in 1863 by a famous art dealer who discovered five of the paintings in an attic in Baden-Baden. In January 2021, the researcher Javier S. Burgos revealed in the same journal the location of the sixth of Géricault's monomania portraits, religious melancholy, identified in a private Italian collection.

Now, the same researcher, who is continuing his research into the three missing works, has revealed the existence of the seventh monomania, the monomania of drunkenness, found in a small French gallery. This discovery brings to light two of the five missing paintings, and further progress is being made towards identifying the complete series.

*The Lancet* is one of the world's most prestigious medical journals, founded in 1823 and published weekly by The Lancet Publishing Group. *The Lancet Neurology* is The Lancet's specialised journal in neurology, and has an impact factor of 59.935, making it the world's top-ranked journal in clinical neurology.

Javier S. Burgos Muñoz (Puerto de Sagunto, Valencia, 1971) holds a degree in Biological Sciences (specialising in Biochemistry) from the University of Valencia and a PhD in Sciences (specialising in Molecular Biology) from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has been a lecturer and researcher at several universities and research centres, and has devoted a large part of his scientific career to research into Alzheimer's disease.

He has held positions of responsibility and senior management in biotechnology companies, in biosanitary research foundations and in public administration. He is currently a distinguished researcher at the Predepartmental Unit of Medicine of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló. In 2020 he published his first book, *Geografía de la locura*, published by West Indies, and in 2021 *Diseñando fármacos*, published by Next Door Publishers.

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