The Rescue of the Survivors of the Raft of the Medusa
A loose pen and brown ink sketch on tan paper shows a crowd of nude and partly clothed figures struggling in rough water beside a boat with a furled sail at left. Figures reach, lean and kneel in a tangle of arms and torsos, with a pale reclining form at lower left and an oar angled through the waves.
- Artist
- Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
- Date
- c. 1818
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, over traces of graphite, on tan wove paper
- Source
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Size
- 1686 × 1270 px
Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1824).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Margaret Day Blake Fund income