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The French frigate Méduse strikes the Bank of Arguin and 151 people on board have to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.
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French frigate Méduse (1810)
French Navy vessel wrecked off the coast of Africa in 1816
Méduse was a 40-gun Pallas-class frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1810. She took part in the Napoleonic Wars during the late stages of the Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811 and in raids in the Caribbean.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Bay of Arguin
Bay on the coast of Mauritania
The Bay of Arguin is a bay on the Atlantic shore of Mauritania and the former mouth of the Tamanrasset River, now a Paleo-river.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Théodore Géricault
French painter (1791–1824)
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault was a French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa. Despite his short life, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
The Raft of the Medusa
Painting by Théodore Géricault
The Raft of the Medusa – originally titled Scène de Naufrage – is an oil painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). Completed when the artist was 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism. At 491 by 716 cm,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)