Chapter One
Illustrations
This chapter gathers together twenty of the images discussed in the book: ten paintings and a sheet of drawings by Théodore Géricault, a painting by Jacques-Louis David and another formerly attributed to him, a painting by Eugène Delacroix, a lithograph after a painting by Horace Vernet, three engraved book illustrations, by Ambroise Tardieu, including one made after a drawing by Georges François Marie Gabriel, a drawing by this same Gabriel, and a plate from a book by Charles Bell. The reader might care to linger on these for a while, in as open-minded and free-associative a way as possible, before reading on.
Illustration 1. Théodore Géricault. Monomane du vol d’enfants (Monomaniac of Child Abduction). c.1822–1823. Oil on canvas. 86.8 × 54 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA.
Illustration 2. Théodore Géricault. Monomane du comandement militaire (Monomaniac of Military Command). c.1822–1823. Oil on canvas, 81 × 65 cm. Collection Oskar Reinhart “Am Römerholz”, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Illustration 3. Théodore Géricault. Monomane du vol (Monomaniac of Theft). c.1822–1823. Oil on canvas. 61.2 × 50.1 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium.
Illustration 4. Théodore Géricault. Monomane du jeu (Monomaniac of Gambling). c.1822–1823. Oil on canvas. 77 × 64 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Illustration 5. Théodore Géricault. Monomane de l’envie (Monomaniac of Envy). c.1822–1823. Oil on canvas. 72 × 58 cm. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France.
Illustration 6. Théodore Géricault. Chasseur de la Garde. 1812. Oil on canvas. 349 × 266 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Illustration 7. Jacques-Louis David. The Oath of the Horatii. 1784. Oil on canvas. 329.8 × 424.8 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Illustration 8. Théodore Géricault. The Race of the Barbieri Horses. c.1817. Oil on paper marouflé on canvas. 44.5 × 59.5 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Illustration 9. Théodore Géricault. The Raft of the Medusa. 1819. Oil on canvas. 491 × 716 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Illustration 10. Théodore Géricault. Expressive Self-portraits as Sailor. c.1818–1819. Graphite, pen, and brown ink on brown paper. 21 × 26.2 cm. Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD.
Illustration 11. Théodore Géricault. Guillotined Heads. c.1818–1820. Oil on canvas. 50 × 61 cm. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
Illustration 12. Théodore Géricault. Mazeppa. 1823. Oil on canvas. 28.5 × 21.5 cm. Private collection.
Illustration 13. Charles Motte, after Horace Vernet. La folle par amour. 1819. Lithograph. Plate XXVI, volume 1, Galerie lithographiée de son Altesse royale Monseigneur le Duc d’ Orléans. Paris: Bureau de la Galerie, 1830[?].
Illustration 14. Ambroise Tardieu. Aba. Idiot. Plate XXII from J.-E.-D. Esquirol, Des Maladies mentales, 1838.
Illustration 15. Ambroise Tardieu, after Georges François Marie Gabriel. Démonomaniaque. Plate VI from J.-E.-D. Esquirol, Des Maladies mentales, 1838.
Illustration 16. Anon. The Maniac. Plate from C. Bell, Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting, 1806.
Illustration 17. Georges François Marie Gabriel. Officier, devenu fou, par opinion politique. 1813. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.
Illustration 18. Ambroise Tardieu. Manie. Plate VIII from J.-E.-D. Esquirol, Des Maladies mentales, 1838.
Illustration 19. French School, formerly attributed to J.-L. David. Half-Length Portrait of a Woman known as La Maraîchère (The Market Gardener). c.1795. Oil on canvas. 82 × 65 cm. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France.
Illustration 20. Eugène Delacroix. Liberty Leading the People. 1830. Oil on canvas....