The Kleptomaniac
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The Kleptomaniac is a 1822 painting by Théodore Géricault. It was part of a series of ten paintings he made of the patients of Étienne-Jean Georget, head doctor at the Salpêtrière. 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.
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