At 491 by 716 cm (16 ft 1 in by 23 ft 6 in),[2] it is an over-life-size painting that depicts a moment from the aftermath of the wreck of the French naval frigate M챕duse, which ran aground off the coast of today's Mauritania on 2 July 1816. Of the 17 men that remained behind on the. 5.0. The dramatic composition of G챕ricault, with its strong contrasts of tone and unconventional gestures, stimulated Delacroix to trust his own creative impulses on a large work. Pour certains d'entre eux, votre consentement est nécessaire. Une étude de Georges-Antoine Borias. Un choix audacieux et très réussi! The art and sculpture historian Albert Elsen believed that The Raft of the Medusa and Delacroix's Massacre at Chios provided the inspiration for the grandiose sweep of Auguste Rodin's monumental sculpture The Gates of Hell. Viscount Hugues Duroy de Chaumereys had been appointed captain of the frigate despite having scarcely sailed in 20 years. "Staging The Raft of the Medusa". Among the scenes he considered were the mutiny against the officers from the second day on the raft, the cannibalism that occurred after only a few days, and the rescue. ARTE France Développement dispose d’un délai de 1 (un) mois pour répondre à compter de la réception de la demande. [37] G챕ricault ultimately settled on the moment, recounted by one of the survivors, when they first saw, on the horizon, the approaching rescue ship Argus���visible in the upper right of the painting���which they attempted to signal. 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Trois épopées complémentaires, qui s'imbriquent harmonieusement pour donner au film toute son ampleur documentaire. In the words of one of the surviving crew members, "From the delirium of joy, we fell into profound despondency and grief. [8] The frigate's mission was to accept the British return of Senegal under the terms of France's acceptance of the Peace of Paris. Samedi, à Thénac, et en avant-première du Festival littéraire et artistique des 11, 12, 13 mars, un film documentaire d’Herlé Jouon sur « La véritable histoire du radeau de La Méduse » [4], In June 1816, the French frigate M챕duse departed from Rochefort, bound for the Senegalese port of Saint-Louis. "[42] The painting's influence is seen in Delacroix's The Barque of Dante (1822) and reappears as inspiration in Delacroix's later works, such as The Shipwreck of Don Juan (1840). The collision was widely blamed on the incompetence of De Chaumereys, a returned 챕migr챕 who lacked experience and ability, but had been granted his commission as a result of an act of political preferment. The appointed French governor of Senegal, Colonel Julien-D챕sir챕 Schmaltz, and his wife and daughter were among the passengers. [68], Because of deterioration in the condition of G챕ricault's original, the Louvre in 1859���60 commissioned two French artists, Pierre-D챕sir챕 Guillemet and ��tienne-Antoine-Eug챔ne Ronjat [fr], to make a full size copy of the original for loan exhibitions. Qui connaît la véritable histoire du Radeau de La Méduse ? The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la M챕duse [l�� ��ado d(��) la medyz]) ��� originally titled Sc챔ne de Naufrage (Shipwreck Scene) ��� is an oil painting of 1818���19 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Th챕odore G챕ricault (1791���1824). Tous les droits des auteurs des oeuvres protégées reproduites et communiquées sur ce site, sont réservés. The ship, however, passed by. Les destinataires des données sont ARTE France Développement, les prestataires d’Arte France Développement en charge notamment de l’envoi des messages clients et de l’hébergement, Arte France et si vous y avez consenti, Arte GEIE ainsi que les partenaires. [31] Having decided to proceed, he undertook extensive research before he began the painting. Crary, Jonathan, "G챕ricault, the Panorama, and Sites of Reality in the Early Nineteenth Century,", Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina & De Filippis, Marybeth. 6 jUILLET 1816 La deuxième nuit vient de tomber sur le radeau. If Rodin was inspired to rival Michelangelo's Last Judgment, he had G챕ricault's Raft of the Medusa in front of him for encouragement. [14] For sustenance the crew of the raft had only a bag of ship's biscuit (consumed on the first day), two casks of water (lost overboard during fighting) and six casks of wine. En juin 1816, un navire français, La Méduse, quitte le port de Rochefort en direction du Sénégal. [61] In part, this was due to the manner of the painting's exhibition: in Paris it had initially been hung high in the Salon Carr챕���a mistake that G챕ricault recognised when he saw the work installed���but in London it was placed close to the ground, emphasising its monumental impact. [6][7] After the wreck, public outrage mistakenly attributed responsibility for his appointment to Louis XVIII, though his was a routine naval appointment made within the Ministry of the Navy and far outside the concerns of the monarch. There may have been other reasons for its popularity in England as well, including "a degree of national self-congratulation",[62] the appeal of the painting as lurid entertainment,[62] and two theatrical entertainments based around the events on the raft which coincided with the exhibition and borrowed heavily from G챕ricault's depiction. [65], The Raft of the Medusa was championed by the curator of the Louvre, comte de Forbin who purchased it for the museum from G챕ricault's heirs after his death in 1824. [18] The incident became a huge public embarrassment for the French monarchy, only recently restored to power after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. The painting was seen as largely sympathetic to the men on the raft, and thus by extension to the anti-imperial cause adopted by the survivors Savigny and Corr챕ard. [33] G챕ricault retreated to the countryside, where he collapsed from exhaustion, and his unsold work was rolled up and stored in a friend's studio. Etiam pretium imperdiet ultricies. [64] After the London exhibition, Bullock brought the painting to Dublin early in 1821, but the exhibition there was far less successful, in large part due to a competing exhibition of a moving panorama, "The Wreck of the Medusa" by the Marshall brothers firm, which was said to have been painted under the direction of one of the survivors of the disaster. Trapp, Frank Anderson. In his introduction to The Journal of Eug챔ne Delacroix, Hubert Wellington wrote about Delacroix's opinion of the state of French painting just prior to the Salon of 1819. [33] At the end of the exhibition, the painting was awarded a gold medal by the judging panel, but they did not give the work the greater prestige of selecting it for the Louvre's national collection. Documentaire de 1963 réalisé par Adrien Touboul. Cliquez sur chaque finalité de cookies pour activer ou désactiver le dépôt de cookies, par défaut, ces finalités sont désactivées. The captain and crew aboard the other boats intended to tow the raft, but after only a few miles the raft was turned loose. Sa mise en scène de l'opéra Le Radeau de la Méduse du compositeur Hans Werner Henze. "Theodore G챕ricault's 'The Raft of the M챕duse' Part II". Nous vous enverrons un e-mail contenant un lien pour réinitialiser votre mot de passe dans quelques minutes. Nous utilisons des cookies Google pour améliorer les propositions faites aux acheteurs et pour connaitre les effets des campagnes de publicité que nous lançons. Instead of the sunny morning and calm water reported on the day of the rescue, G챕ricault depicted a gathering storm and dark, heaving sea to reinforce the emotional gloom. Goya also produced a painting of a disaster at sea, called simply Shipwreck (date unknown), but although the sentiment is similar, the composition and style have nothing in common with The Raft of the Medusa. The Louvre acquired it soon after the artist's death at the age of 32. [39], The author Rupert Christiansen points out that the painting depicts more figures than had been on the raft at the time of the rescue���including corpses which were not recorded by the rescuers. Vous pouvez dès à présent vous connecter avec l'adresse e-mail et le mot de passe saisis lors de votre inscription. de La Méduse, frégate de la marine royale partie en 1816 pour coloniser le Sénégal. [33] Despite suffering from fever, he travelled to the coast on a number of occasions to witness storms breaking on the shore, and a visit to artists in England afforded further opportunity to study the elements while crossing the English Channel.[28][35]. One old man holds the corpse of his son at his knees; another tears his hair out in frustration and defeat. Vous pourrez passer des commandes, suivre leur expédition, accéder à vos vidéos, et bénéficier de notre programme de fidélité. The painting's influence can be seen in the works of Eug챔ne Delacroix, J. M. W. Turner, Gustave Courbet, and ��douard Manet. Le Radeau de la Méduse (English: The Raft of the Medusa) is a French film by Iranian film director Iradj Azimi.It is based on the 1816 wreck of the French frigate Méduse, and the 1819 painting Le Radeau de la Méduse by Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault which depicts the event. Dorment, Richard. The 2004 exhibition at the Clark Art Institute, Bonjour Monsieur Courbet: The Bruyas Collection from the Musee Fabre, Montpellier, sought to compare the 19th-century Realist painters Courbet, Honor챕 Daumier (1808���1879), and early ��douard Manet (1832���1883) with artists associated with Romanticism, including G챕ricault and Delacroix. Completed when the artist was 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism. POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine. According to an early British reviewer, the work is set at a moment when "the ruin of the raft may be said to be complete". He visited hospitals and morgues where he could view, first-hand, the colour and texture of the flesh of the dying and dead. Le 2 juillet 1816, la frégate de la méduse s'échoue au marge de la Mauritanie. G챕ricault drew an outline sketch of the composition onto the canvas. [19][20], The Raft of the Medusa portrays the moment when, after 13 days adrift on the raft, the remaining 15 survivors view a ship approaching from a distance. The pictorial composition of the painting is constructed upon two pyramidal structures. Aujourd’hui, nous vous proposons de découvrir cette enquête signée Arte qui se concentre sur le célèbre chef-d’œuvre romantique du « Radeau de La Méduse » de Théodore Géricault.Peint en 1819, ce tableau réserve bien des mystères et a récemment occulté le fait divers qui l’a inspiré. Artist. Placing a person of color in the centre of the drama was revisited by Turner, with similar abolitionist overtones, in his The Slave Ship (1840). The event became an international scandal, in part because its cause was widely attributed to the incompetence of the French captain. Ces deux films ont été sélectionnés afin d'offrir au public un moyen d'appréhender le travail et la personnalité de l'artiste. Liens avec d'autres articles d'histoire de l'art : Histoire d'une oeuvre / View 0 reviews. Savigny, Jean Baptiste Henri; Corr챕ard, Alexandre. A scenery truck from the Com챕die-Fran챌aise transported the painting to Versailles in the night of 3 September. "Theodore G챕ricault's 'The Raft of the M챕duse' Part I". Il pratique la dualité de l’information en nous sensibilisant par l’Art et par l’Architecture navale. 5 of 5 stars. He drew and painted numerous preparatory sketches while deciding which of several alternative moments of the disaster he would depict in the final work. Le radeau de la méduse . The painting had fervent admirers too, including French writer and art critic Auguste Jal, who praised its political theme, its liberal position���its advancement of the negro and critique of ultra-royalism���and its modernity. G챕ricault's compositional structure and depiction of the figures are classical, but the contrasting turbulence of the subject represents a significant change in artistic direction and creates an important bridge between Neoclassical and Romantic styles. Acquise à la vente posthume de l'artiste par l'intermédiaire de Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy, ami de Géricault. Peint en 1819, le chef-d'œuvre romantique de Théodore Géricault a atteint une telle renommée qu'il a depuis occulté le fait divers réel qui l'a inspiré. une révolte éclate et les officiers réagissent à grands coups de sabre. [77] The critic Michael Fried sees Manet directly borrowing the figure of the man cradling his son for the composition of Angels at the Tomb of Christ. Musique de Jacques Lasry. [80], The Gulf Stream (1899), by the American artist Winslow Homer (1836���1910), replicates the composition of The Raft of the Medusa with a damaged vessel, ominously surrounded by sharks and threatened by a waterspout. Riding, Christine. The historian Jules Michelet approved: "our whole society is aboard the raft of the Medusa". "[42], The Raft of the Medusa contains the gestures and grand scale of traditional history painting; however, it presents ordinary people, rather than heroes, reacting to the unfolding drama. [72] G챕ricault's raft pointedly lacks a hero, and his painting presents no cause beyond sheer survival. [3], G챕ricault had deliberately sought to be both politically and artistically confrontational. Vous allez recevoir un e-mail de confirmation. [33], He worked with Corr챕ard, Savigny and another of the survivors, the carpenter Lavillette, to construct an accurately detailed scale model of the raft, which was reproduced on the finished canvas, even showing the gaps between some of the planks. Sur le site ARTE Boutique, des cookies sont déposés par ARTE France Développement et des tiers. Louis XVIII visited three days before the opening and said: "Monsieur, vous venez de faire un naufrage qui n'en est pas un pour vous",[55] or "Monsieur G챕ricault, you've painted a shipwreck, but it's not one for you". "[85], For Kenneth Clark, The Raft of the Medusa "remains the chief example of romantic pathos expressed through the nude; and that obsession with death, which drove G챕ricault to frequent mortuary chambers and places of public execution, gives truth to his figures of the dead and the dying. Pour activer votre compte, vous devrez cliquer sur le lien d'activation présent dans cet e-mail (ou le copier-coller dans votre navigateur). [48], Although the men depicted on the raft had spent 13 days adrift and suffered hunger, disease and cannibalism, G챕ricault pays tribute to the traditions of heroic painting and presents his figures as muscular and healthy. [30], The influence of Jacques-Louis David can be seen in the painting's scale, in the sculptural tautness of the figures and in the heightened manner in which a particularly significant "fruitful moment"���the first awareness of the approaching ship���is described. Although the M챕duse was carrying 400 people, including 160 crew, there was space for only about 250 in the boats. "[10][16] After 13 days, on 17 July 1816, the raft was rescued by the Argus by chance���no particular search effort was made by the French for the raft. À voir au moins une fois tout de même. The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse [lə ʁado d(ə) la medyz]) – originally titled Scène de Naufrage (Shipwreck Scene) – is an oil painting of 1818–19 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). Send Message. In its insistence on portraying an unpleasant truth, The Raft of the Medusa was a landmark in the emerging Romantic movement in French painting, and "laid the foundations of an aesthetic revolution"[70] against the prevailing Neoclassical style. Mais par la faute de la cartographie aléatoire de l'époque et de l'imprévoyance de son commandant, La Méduse s'échoue sur un banc de sable, au large de la Mauritanie. However, it established his international reputation and today is widely seen as seminal in the early history of the Romantic movement in French painting. He kept his colours apart from each other: his palette consisted of vermilion, white, naples yellow, two different yellow ochres, two red ochres, raw sienna, light red, burnt sienna, crimson lake, Prussian blue, peach black, ivory black, Cassel earth and bitumen. In early 1818, he met with two survivors: Henri Savigny, a surgeon, and Alexandre Corr챕ard, an engineer from the ��cole nationale sup챕rieure d'arts et m챕tiers. [3], At some time between 1826 and 1830 American artist George Cooke (1793���1849) made a copy of the painting in a smaller size, (130.5 x 196.2 cm; approximately 4 ft �� 6 ft), which was shown in Boston, Philadelphia, New York and Washington, D.C. to crowds who knew about the controversy surrounding the shipwreck. The perimeter of the large mast on the left of the canvas forms the first. Claude Joseph Vernet (1714���1789) created many such images,[47] achieving naturalistic colour through direct observation���unlike other artists at that time���and was said to have tied himself to the mast of a ship in order to witness a storm. The remainder of the ship's complement and half of a contingent of marine infantrymen intended to garrison Senegal[13]���������at least 146 men and one woman���������were piled onto a hastily built raft, that partially submerged once it was loaded. [30], G챕ricault was captivated by accounts of the widely publicised 1816 shipwreck, and realised that a depiction of the event might be an opportunity to establish his reputation as a painter. Le docufiction d'Herlé Jouon, c'est l'histoire d'un fait divers navrant de la marine militaire transformé en un chef-d'oeuvre percutant de la peinture française. [60] The reception in London was more positive than that in Paris, and the painting was hailed as representative of a new direction in French art. Ils partirent à 151 et arrivèrent à 15… Qui connaît la véritable histoire du Radeau de La Méduse ? On 2 July, it ran aground on a sandbank off the West African coast, near today's Mauritania. Recevez l’actu VOD, DVD & Livres et des invitations exclusives par e-mail: Ce service respecte le droit d’auteur. The art critic Christine Riding has speculated that the painting's later exhibition in London was planned to coincide with anti-slavery agitation there. "Le radeau de la Méduse", Salon de 1819. Code-barres: 20042000188183. [82], In the early 1990s, sculptor John Connell, in his Raft Project, a collaborative project with painter Eugene Newmann, recreated The Raft of the Medusa by making life-sized sculptures out of wood, paper and tar and placing them on a large wooden raft. [3] The event fascinated him, and before he began work on the final painting, he undertook extensive research and produced many preparatory sketches. His painting had an enormous political impact during the time of the revolution in France, and it served as an important precedent for G챕ricault's decision to also paint a current event. [33] The exhibition was sponsored by Louis XVIII and featured nearly 1,300 paintings, 208 sculptures and numerous other engravings and architectural designs. Le radeau de La Méduse is on Facebook. Their outlines may be taken from the classics, but they have been seen again with a craving for violent experience. [83] The man's condition, which in earlier works might have been characterised by hope or helplessness, has turned to "sullen rage". He interviewed two of the survivors and constructed a detailed scale model of the raft. ". It is unlikely that G챕ricault had seen the picture. Riding, Christine. New Discoveries: An American Copy of G챕ricault's Raft of the Medusa? [44], The foreground figure of the older man may be a reference to Ugolino from Dante's Inferno���a subject that G챕ricault had contemplated painting���and seems to borrow from a painting of Ugolini by Henry Fuseli (1741���1825) that G챕ricault may have known from prints. In: Noon, Patrick & Bann, Stephen. Ces cookies permettent d’établir des statistiques de fréquentation du site. Ajouter au panier; Envoyer par mail; Pour citer ce document; Partager ce document; Cote Localisation Statut; ART 759 GER: Aimé Césaire [Blanzat] Etage / Documentaire Arts (ART) Plus de détails sur cet exemplaire. G챕ricault's work attracted wide attention from its first showing and was then exhibited in London. Delacroix said, "G챕ricault allowed me to see his Raft of Medusa while he was still working on it. "Painting the Unpaintable". [21] According to the art historian Georges-Antoine Borias, "G챕ricault established his studio across from Beaujon hospital. [27] Overall the painting is dark and relies largely on the use of sombre, mostly brown pigments, a palette that G챕ricault believed was effective in suggesting tragedy and pain. Like G챕ricault, Homer makes a black man the pivotal figure in the scene, though here he is the vessel's sole occupant. Les destinataires de ses données sont ARTE France Développement, les prestataires d’ARTE France Développement en charge notamment de l’envoi des DVD, des messages clients, de l’hébergement et ARTE France. Over 30 years after the completion of the work, his friend Montfort recalled: Working with little distraction, the artist completed the painting in eight months;[28] the project as a whole took 18 months. He was dreaded and avoided. Instead, G챕ricault was awarded a commission on the subject of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which he clandestinely offered to Delacroix, whose finished painting he then signed as his own. Huile sur toile (H. 491 x L. 716 cm) de Théodore Géricault (1791-1824). Plus fort que la mort Le documentaire fiction d'Herlé Jouon raconte l'histoire d'une métamorphose : celle d'un des faits divers les plus dramatiques de la marine militaire en un des chefs-d'œuvre les plus percutants de la peinture française. Seuls 15 d'entre eux survivront, secourus par un autre navire français, L'Argus, après treize jours de dérive. Nom : Le Radeau de la Méduse . "[37], To a public well-versed in the particulars of the disaster, the scene would have been understood to encompass the aftermath of the crew's abandonment, focusing on the moment when all hope seemed lost[37]���the Argus reappeared two hours later and rescued those who remained. Both the choice of subject matter and the heightened manner in which the dramatic moment is depicted are typical of Romantic painting���strong indications of the extent to which G챕ricault had moved from the prevalent Neoclassical movement. Texte dit par Jacques Doyen. "[46], Today, a bronze bas-relief of The Raft of the Medusa by Antoine ��tex adorns G챕ricault's grave in P챔re Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. [21] The decision to place a black man at the pinnacle of the composition was a controversial expression of G챕ricault's abolitionist sympathies. Quels terribles événements expliquent ce décompte macabre ? "The Fatal Raft: Christine Riding Looks at British Reaction to the French Tragedy at Sea Immortalised in Gericault's Masterpiece 'The Raft of the Medusa'. The fact that the majority of the figures are almost naked, he wrote, arose from a desire to avoid "unpictorial" costumes. Située à Rochefort, Le Chantier de l’Arsenal est naît d’une collaboration entre deux entreprises engagées passionnément sur un même chantier : celui de la reconstruction de l’Hermione. His most docile pupil, Girodet, a refined and cultivated classicist, was producing pictures of astonishing frigidity. [86], This article is about the painting. [3], G챕ricault's palette is composed of pallid flesh tones, and the murky colours of the survivors' clothes, the sea and the clouds. Cent quarante-neuf personnes s'entassèrent de gré ou de force dans cette embarcation de fortune : sept seulement survivront It made so tremendous an impression on me that when I came out of the studio I started running like a madman and did not stop till I reached my own room. [21] The painting is on a monumental scale of 491 cm �� 716 cm (193 in �� 282 in), so that most of the figures rendered are life-sized[22] and those in the foreground almost twice life-size, pushed close to the picture plane and crowding onto the viewer, who is drawn into the physical action as a participant.