1819

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History painting · Romanticism

Raft of the Medusa

Theodore Gericault

1819 · Louvre, Paris

Survivors of a real shipwreck pile toward a speck of sail on the horizon. Géricault studied corpses and asylum patients before he began.

★ 9.0

History painting · Neoclassicism

The Declaration of Independence

John Trumbull

1819 · Yale Art Gallery, New Haven

Trumbull knew many of the men and painted their faces from life, which is why this version ended up on the two-dollar bill.

★ 6.8