Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Raft of the Medusa

The Raft of the Medusa

Voting period ends on 29 Jul 2024 at 20:03:53 (UTC)

Original – From Commons: "The Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819). Oil on canvas, 490 × 716 cm (16 ft 1 in × 23 ft 6 in). Louvre, Paris"

Reason

High resolution upload of a famous painting; target article is FA. I confess I'm not an expert on color grading but this version appears to be superior to the other ones I found in a quick Google Image search. I can't tell if the faint color-banding in the lower left is an aspect of the canvas or a fault in the reproduction.

Articles in which this image appears

The Raft of the Medusa, among many others

FP category for this image

link to category (listed on the WP:FP page) that best describes the image

Creator

Théodore Géricault, uploaded to Commons by Pq32

• Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 20:03, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose - Crushed blacks, overly contrasty shadows. Strange horizontal lines. Is this really the best version available? --Janke | Talk 11:25, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
• Comment – The painting is 23.4 feet wide, so at 5,872 × 4,008 pixels, the resolution is 21 pixels per inch. That's low. For a painting, fine details are lost at that resolution. I say 40+ pixels per inch can be Ok. Bammesk (talk) 12:34, 21 July 2024 (UTC)