# The Wreck [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GÉRICAULT, Théodore]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 19 x 25 cm ## Commentary "Fate painting" displaced the older religious forms in the 19th century. Artists depicted man helpless at the mercy of forces of nature, either as a group, in images of horror and despair, or as individuals, as here, cast up senseless on a beach by a storm. ## Related artworks - [A Carabinier with his Horse]() - [A Charge of Cuirassiers]() - [A Madwoman and Compulsive Gambler]() - [A Turk \(Mustapha\)]() - [An Officer of the Chasseurs Commanding a Charge]() - [English Horse in Stable]() - [Grey Horse Called L'Aly]() - [Heroic Landscape with Fishermen]() - [Horse Market: Five Horses at the Stake]() - [Man with Delusions of Military Command]() - [Nymph and Satyr \(Jupiter and Antiope\)]() - [Portrait of a Kleptomaniac]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()