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Theodore Gericault
Scene from the Epidemic of Yellow Fever in Cadiz, ca 1819
Gericault's interest in human suffering continued to preoccupy him even after his immense Raft of the Medusa (showing the terrible aftermath of a shipwreck) failed to win approval at the Salon exhibition ni 1819. This small but powerful scene -- also a sensational subject from modern life -- was no doubt intended as a study for a much larger work that Gericault characteristically never finished. |