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Tempête (Tempest)
Illustration for Virgil's Aeneid, I. 81-123
Tempête (Tempest) Illustration for Virgil's Aeneid, I. 81-123

Tempête (Tempest)
Illustration for Virgil's Aeneid, I. 81-123

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (French, 1767–1824)
about 1820–24
Medium/TechniqueBlack chalk
DimensionsSheet: 27 x 41.9 cm (10 5/8 x 16 1/2 in.)
Framed: 54.9 x 66 cm (21 5/8 x 26 in.)
Credit LineErnest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund
Accession number1999.7
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceFrom the artist to his pupil, Antoine-Claude Pannetier (b. 1772 - d. 1859), Paris; 1859, M. de la Bordes. Ambroise Firmin-Didot (b. 1790 - d. 1860), Paris; his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, April 15, 1867, lot 3. November 7, 1971, anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, lot 1. June 17, 1987, anonymous (private collection) sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 37. February 12, 1997, anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, lot 165. 1999, sold by Mark Brady, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 24, 1999)
Ossian
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Paris, Cupid playing a flute, and Venus
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Greek Male and Female Figures
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
July 30, 1816
Two Cupids at an alter, "Ode sur le mariage de..."
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Wreath of lilies and roses (end of ode)
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Jupiter et Sémélé
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
1826