Sketch for "The Revolt at Cairo"
c. 1809
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French, 1767–1824)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Sketch for "The Revolt at Cairo", c. 1809. Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French, 1767–1824). Oil on paper, mounted on paper and canvas; framed: 25 x 33 x 6.5 cm (9 13/16 x 13 x 2 9/16 in.); unframed: 15.2 x 23.3 cm (6 x 9 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Eugene Victor Thaw 1965.310
- Maker/Artist
- Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, Anne-Louis
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on paper, mounted on paper and canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 25 x 33 x 6.5 cm (9 13/16 x 13 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 15.2 x 23.3 cm (6 x 9 3/16 in.)
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1965.310
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eugene Victor Thaw
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1965, French Nineteenth Century Oil Sketches: David to Degas, Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism, Goya: das Zeitalter der Revolutionen, 1789-1830 (Goya: The Age of Revolutions, 1789-1830), Triumph und Tod des Helden (Triumph and Death of the Hero): European History Painting from Rubens to Manet, French Drawings from the Collection, Girodet: Romantic Rebel, Kansas City, Nelson Atkins Museum. The Taste of Napoleon (1969), no. 35.<br>Chapel Hill, William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, University of North Carolina. French Nineteenth Century Oil Sketches: David to Degas (1978), no. 39, fig. 39.<br>cma; Brooklyn Museum; Saint Louis Art Museum; Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum. The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900 (1980-82), 72-73 (repr.). Text by Gabriel P. Weisberg.<br>Kunsthalle Hamburg. Goya: Das Zeitalter der Revolutionen 1789-1830 (1981), 534, no. 393, pl. xx.<br>Providence, Bell Gallery, Brown University. All the Banners Wave: Art and War in the Romantic Era 1792-1851 (1982), no. 11b (repr.).<br>Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (N.Y.); Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase. Orientalism: The Near East in French Painting, 1800-1880 (1982), no. 45, fig. 14.<br>Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum; Kunsthaus Zürich; Lyons, Musée des Beaux-Arts. Triumph und Tod des Helden: Europäische Historienmalerei von Rubens bis Manet (1987-88), no. 134 (repr.).<br>Art Institute of Chicago, IL (2/11/2006 - 4/30/2006), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC (5/22/2006 - 8/27/2006) and the Musée des Beaux Arts, Montréal (10/12/2006 - 1/21/2007): "Girodet: Romantic Rebel" (Paris: Musée du Louvre Êdition ©2005), ex. cat. 56, p. 317.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 202 French Neoclassical Decorative Arts
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