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Géricault’s monomaniacs

La monomanie du vol des enfantsMonomanie du commandement militaireLa monomanie du volLa monomanie du jeuLa monomanie de l'envie

 

From left to right Monomanie du vol des enfants, Monomanie du commandement militaire, Monomanie du vol, La monomanie du jeu, Monomanie de l’envie.

The Monomanies is a series of ten paintings by Théodore Géricault produced between 1821 and 1824 of the patients of Étienne-Jean Georget, head physician at the Salpêtrière Parisian psychiatric ward. The paintings were commissioned by Georget so that his students could study the physical traits of these “monomaniacs“, in a sort of scientific realism that parallels the literary realism of that time.

Translation from left to right: a child kidnapper, a man obsessed with the military, a kleptomaniac, a gambling addict and a woman suffering from obsessive envy.

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