What is the title of Théodore Géricault's large painting of a shipwreck in the Louvre?

The title of Théodore Géricault's large painting of a shipwreck in the Louvre is The Raft of the Medusa.

Géricault painted the oil-on-canvas work in 1818–1819, depicting survivors of the French naval frigate Méduse, which ran aground off the coast of present-day Mauritania in 1816. The disaster became a political scandal after the captain’s alleged incompetence left more than 150 people adrift on a makeshift raft.

The survivors endured thirteen days of hunger, thirst, disease and violence; only 15 were rescued. Géricault interviewed survivors and studied corpses to create the painting’s unusually intense realism. It was first exhibited at the 1819 Paris Salon under the less revealing title Scène de Naufrage, or Shipwreck Scene.

A common mix-up is calling it The Shipwreck of the Medusa. That phrase describes the subject, but the canonical title is The Raft of the Medusa. The Louvre acquired the painting after Géricault’s death, and it is now regarded as a landmark of French Romanticism.