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The Melancholic Man
Artist	attributed to Théodore Géricault
Year	c. 1820-1823
Location	Private collection, Ravenna

The Melancholic Man (French: L'homme mélancolique) is an oil-on-canvas painting discovered by Javier S. Burgos, a Spanish scientist, in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy in 2019. It depicts a man with a furrowed brow, dressed in a red robe.

Burgos believes it to be by Théodore Géricault, painted as part of the series Les Monomanes (Portraits of the Insane), created between 1821 and 1824. If this identification is correct, it would be the sixth painting of the series to be discovered, representing a melancholic man. This attribution has been contested by several specialists of Géricault.

References

1. "Researcher Discovers Missing 'Monomanes' Of French Artist Gericault". zenger.news. 13 February 2021.
2. Burgos, J. S. (2021). "A new portrait by Géricault". The Lancet. Neurology. 20 (2): 90–91. doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(20)30479-8. hdl:10234/205721. PMID 33484650. S2CID 231654297.
3. Amigo, Ignacio (2023-10-27). "How a biologist turned amateur sleuth to solve a century-old art riddle". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-10-27.

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