Self-Portrait in a Hat
c. 1790
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French, 1767–1824)
Drawings
Self-Portrait in a Hat, c. 1790. Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French, 1767–1824). Black chalk, with stumping, heightened with traces of white gouache; sheet: 21.6 x 17.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.); secondary support: 21.6 x 17.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden Fund 1978.79 Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson created this self-portrait as a young man, in his 20s, while living in Italy after winning the prestigious Prix de Rome. The artist meets the viewer's gaze boldly and directly from underneath his distinctive hat. The drawing is one of several depictions that Girodet created of himself around this time and may have been intended as a gift by exchange for a colleague. Self-portraiture was a common practice among the young artists who, like Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, worked in the studio of the acclaimed history painter Jacques-Louis David.
- Maker/Artist
- Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, Anne-Louis
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- black chalk, with stumping, heightened with traces of white gouache
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 21.6 x 17.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.); Secondary Support: 21.6 x 17.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper left, in graphite: 13/45 [5 written over a numeral 4]
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1978.79
- Credit Line
- Delia E. Holden Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1978, Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings, Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure, French Drawings from the Collection, Girodet: Romantic Rebel, <em>Exposition "Une Oeuvre": Un Dessin de Girodet. </em>Musée Girodet, Montargis, France (November 3 - 18, 1977).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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