This artist's Portrait of a Kleptomaniac is one of ten portraits of patients at the Salpetriere Asylum he made in the early 1820s.
This artist's Portrait of a Kleptomaniac is one of ten portraits of patients at the Salpetriere Asylum he made in the early 1820s. While in England he created a work depicting four horseman racing to the canvas's left in his Epsom Derby. An 1819 work by this painter shows a black soldier named Jean Charles waving a piece of cloth. That most famous work by this artist includes a pile of corpses, and depicts a group of shipwrecked men flagging down a passing ship. For 10 points, name this French painter of The Raft of the Medusa.
This artist's Portrait of a Kleptomaniac is one of ten portraits of patients at the Salpetriere Asylum he made in the early 1820s.
Theodore Gericault [zhey-ree-KOH]