... of the composition of Theodore Gericault's fa• Fmous painting, The Raft of the Medusa, is rendered in a manner that suggests a kind of longing filled...

... when it opened as The Black Model, from Géricault to Matisse at Paris s Musée d Orsay from March 26 to July 14, 2019. A full-color illustrat- ed catalogue in English expanded on each of the exhibition s major argu- ments as well as smaller segments.6 Appendices considered the lives of in- dividual...

... as a national symbol (whether of passengers origin or destina- tion is left ambiguous). One is inevitably remind- ed of Théodore Géricault s painting The Raft of the Medusa (1819) and the grim fate of its passengers. Then, standing apart, is the most gut-wrenching figural group of all: a pietà. We are left...