Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson
French, 1767-1824
Hermione Rejecting Orestes
INV-1054
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson
French, 1767-1824c. 1799
Hermione Rejecting Orestes
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson French, 1767-1824 →pen and ink drawingsdrawings (visual works)
Date
c. 1799
Medium
Pen and black ink and black chalk, with stumping, and brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
26.3 × 32.3 cm (10 3/8 × 12 3/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Margaret Day Blake Collection
Girodet was one of the star pupils of Jacques Louis David. As a young man, he supported himself by making drawings as book illustrations. For the deluxe three-volume edition of the works of Jean Racine, published in 1801, Girodet provided drawings for Phaedra and Andromaque. This sheet is a preparatory work for the latter; it is the scene in which Hermione spurns Orestes after he has killed Pyrrhus at her request.
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