Anne-Louis GIRODET de ROUSSY-TRIOSON (1767-1824)
Hippocrates refusing Artaxerxes' gifts.
Oil on canvas
25.2 x 35 cm
Historical:
Girodet Collection
Sale after the artist's death, Paris,April 11, 1825, n° 36 bought 1002 fr. by Pérignon
Baron Gros Collection
Sale of the Baron Gros studio, Paris, November 23-December 1, 1835, no. 146
Alexis Pérignon Collection
Becquerel Collection
By descent.
Related works:
The painting in Paris, Musée de l'Histoire de la Médecine.
Another sketch in the Musée Fabre, Montpellier.
Several preparatory drawings (Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Bibliothèque Nationale de France.)
Line engraving by Normand for Landon's "Annales du Musée", 1806
Engraving by Raphael Urbain Massard, 1816
The lithograph by Lemercier
Bibliography:
P.A. Coupin, œuvres posthumes de GirodeTrioson, peintre d'histoire.... Paris, 1829. list p. lxx.
V. Bajou and S. Lemeux-Fraitot,Inventaire après décès de Gros et de Girodet / Documents inédits, 2002, p. 103, no. 339.
J.M. Voignier, "La fortune de Girodet" Bulletin de la Société d'émulation de l'arrondissement de Montargis. N° 128-129, April 2005, p. 96
Catalog of the Girodet exhibition, 2005-2007, Paris, Chicago, New-York, Montreal, cited p. 219.
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