Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819, Louvre), by Théodore Jean Louis André Géricault (1791-1824). A French government ship, the Medusa foundered off the coast of Africa in the early 1800s (the image is linked to Willard Spiegelman's essay in the Wall Street Journal 8/21/2009).

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