Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson
French, 1767-1824
Phaedre, Having Declared Her Passion, Attempts to Kill Herself with the Sword of Hippolytus
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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson
French, 1767-1824c. 1801
Phaedre, Having Declared Her Passion, Attempts to Kill Herself with the Sword of Hippolytus
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson French, 1767-1824 →ink and washdrawings (visual works)
Date
c. 1801
Medium
Pen and brush and black and brown wash and graphite, heightened with white gouache on cream laid paper
Dimensions
34.5 × 24.2 cm (13 5/8 × 9 9/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment
This drawing of a scene from the tragedy Phaedra was for a deluxe edition of the plays of the French dramatist Jean Racine (1639–1699) illustrated by Jacques-Louis David’s pupil Girodet. The moment depicted is Phaedra’s attempted suicide after her stepson, Hippolytus, rejects her amorous advances. About his drawings for the plays of Racine, Girodet wrote: “It is wrong that drawings are seen as mere drawings; they demand the same conception and almost as much study as a painting.”
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