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Artist | Théodore Géricault |
Year | 1819 (1819) |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 77 cm × 65 cm (30.25 in × 25.5 in) |
Location | Louvre, Paris |
The Woman with Gambling Mania (French: La Folle Monomane du jeu) is an 1822 painting by Théodore Géricault. It is a member of a series of ten portraits of people with specific manias done by Géricault between 1820 and 1824, including Portrait of a Kleptomaniac and Insane Woman. Following the controversy surrounding his The Raft of the Medusa, Géricault fell into a depression. In return for help by psychiatrist Étienne-Jean Georget, Géricault offered him a series of paintings of mental patients, including this one, in a time when the scientific world was curious about the minds of the mentally insane. A solid example of romanticism, Géricault's portrait of a mental asylum patient attempts to show a specific form of insanity through facial expression.
This painting was acquired by the Louvre in 1938.
References
- ^ "The Woman with Gambling Mania". The Louvre. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
- "Woman with Gambling Mania". China Oil Painting Gallery. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
External links
Media related to A Madwoman and Compulsive Gambler by Théodore Géricault at Wikimedia Commons
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