The Raft of the Medusa
Guillemet showed an early interest in sailing, a pursuit which was actively discouraged by his parents. He briefly studied law, but this too proved to be a false start. It was in 1859, when he received a commission from a local collector to copy Géricault's famous "The Raft of the Medusa" Musee d'Amiens, that Guillemet's career as an artist was launched.