1830sromanticist:Théodore Géricault Last Self Portrait as a Dying Man1824Jean-
1830sromanticist: Théodore Géricault Last Self Portrait as a Dying Man 1824 Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (26th September 1791 – 26th January 1824) was a French Romanticist painter whose most well known work is The Raft of the Medusa. He was due to paint a series of epic history paintings, however after suffering with chronic tuberculosis he instead created the above self portrait as an artistic expression of his own imminent demise. Géricault often painted his figures with a distinct air of melancholia or discomfort, a likely result of the history of insanity in his family and his own mental health issues. -- source link