The Raft of the Medusa
News of the tragedy stirred considerable public emotion, making "Méduse" one of the most infamous shipwrecks of the Age of Sail. Two survivors, a surgeon and an officer, wrote a widely read book about the incident, and the episode was immortalised when Théodore Géricault painted "The Raft of the Medusa", which became a notable artwork of French Romanticism.