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Advertising Poster France Doctors Medical School Paris Internat Medusa Jean E. Bernard - Original vintage caricature poster Internat 1929 ou le Radeau de la Meduse / Boarding School 1929 or the Raft of the Medusa, featuring an image of eight men on a raft, seen fishing, holding the sail and relaxing. The text reads ”internat 1929” at the top and ”Le Radeau de la Médusa” (a play on La Méduse and medical themes) along the bottom.These types of satirical posters were traditionally created by and for medical students in French hospitals (such as Paris) to mock their exams, hospital life, professors, and the trials of the concours de l'internat. The caricature is based on The Raft of the Medusa, originally titled Scène de Naufrage / Shipwreck Scene, an oil painting by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), that depicted the aftermath of the wreck of the French naval frigate Meduse. Horizontal. Good condition, creasing, tears, staining. Country of issue: France, designer: Jean E. Bernard, size (cm): 55x73.5, year of printing: 1929.