The Mutiny on the Raft of the Medusa
1818
Artists
Dimensions
40.5 × 51 cm (15 15/16 × 20 1/16 in.) frame: 55 × 65.8 × 4.5 cm (21 5/8 × 25 7/8 × 1 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Ary Scheffer, Paris, sold [through his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 15-16, 1859, no. 12]. Anatole-Auguste Hulot, Paris, sold [through his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 9-10, 1892, no. 202]. Baron Joseph Vitta, Paris, sold [through Martin Birnbaum]; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, 1935, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
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