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|title=The Raft
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|date=April 2007
|isbn=978-0330418485
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June 1818, France. Theodore Gericault is living a very comfortable life. He has been able to avoid all Napoleonic campaigns, the French Revolution et al, and has been born instead with a bit of a silver spoon in his mouth. His mother has died, leaving him enough to live on, and his uncle has diverted him from the family tobacco factory to enable him to be an artist. A painter, what's more, that doesn't need to beg and scrape for royal and other portrait commissions.