Gericault

"Gericault," she told him, "came from Rouen; his family were under certain obligations to my father, who was president of the court, and he showed his gratitude by painting that portrait of me when I was a girl of sixteen."

The Brotherhood of Consolation Honor�� de Balzac 1824

The Euro may at inception have been a marriage of convenience but is now looking increasingly like Gericault's immortal work in the Louvre" Le Radeau de la Meduse" -- a group of desperate survivors floating on a raft and wondering who to next throw overboard.

Jean Ergas: Is the Euro Crisis a Financial Re-Run of the 1956 Suez Debacle? Jean Ergas 2012

The Euro may at inception have been a marriage of convenience but is now looking increasingly like Gericault's immortal work in the Louvre" Le Radeau de la Meduse" -- a group of desperate survivors floating on a raft and wondering who to next throw overboard.

Jean Ergas: Is the Euro Crisis a Financial Re-Run of the 1956 Suez Debacle? Jean Ergas 2012

The Euro may at inception have been a marriage of convenience but is now looking increasingly like Gericault's immortal work in the Louvre" Le Radeau de la Meduse" -- a group of desperate survivors floating on a raft and wondering who to next throw overboard.

Jean Ergas: Is the Euro Crisis a Financial Re-Run of the 1956 Suez Debacle? Jean Ergas 2012

In fact, it becomes another of the novel's "set pieces", like Heracles and the Pergamon frieze, or the paintings by Delacroix, Goya, Brueghel, Gericault and others.

Resisters - 2 David McDuff 2010

In fact, it becomes another of the novel's "set pieces", like Heracles and the Pergamon frieze, or the paintings by Delacroix, Goya, Brueghel, Gericault and others.

Archive 2010-09-01 David McDuff 2010

However he did not complete the commission and in 1820 secretly passed it on to his young friend, Delacroix who was to receive a payment although the signature and glory were to be that of Gericault

The Virgin of the Sacred Heart 2009

The above is Gericault`s early sketch for the commission.

The Virgin of the Sacred Heart 2009

The above is Gericault`s early sketch for the commission.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

In December 1819, Gericault received a commission from the Comte de Forbin, Director of Museums, for the Cathedral of Nantes.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009