ID 1172964
Lot 100 | ANNE-LOUIS GIRODET DE ROUCY-TRIOSON (MONTARGIS 1767-1824 PARIS)
Estimate value
€ 2 000 – 3 000
Hiarbas demande à Jupiter d’éloigner Énée de sa bien aimée Didon
avec inscriptions ‘Jorbi se plaint à Jupiter’ (sur le montage)
pierre noire, sur deux feuilles de papier , filigrane blason avec trompe surmonté d’une couronne et initiales ‘VANDER LEY’
23,6 x 34,2 cm (9 ¼ x 13 ½ in.)
Provenance
Atelier de l’artiste
Rosine Becquerel-Despréaux, née Girodet, fille de l’artiste à,
Antoine-César Becquerel, à
Antoine-Claude Pannetier (1772-1859).
Collection de la Bordes ; vente Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 avril 1867 (catalogue Livre IV, n° 59, comme ‘Jarbé se plaint à Jupiter’).
Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris, puis par descendance au propriétaire actuel.
Further details
ANNE-LOUIS GIRODET DE ROUCY-TRIOSON, IARBAS ASKS JUPITER TO KEEP AENEAS AWAY FROM HIS BELOVED DIDO, GRAPHITE
This scene depicts the love story of Dido and Aeneas as recounted in Virgil’s Aeneid, in particular the shocking moment when King Iarbas, seeking to marry Dido, asks Jupiter to send Aeneas away. The god accepts the request and sends Mercury to Carthage to remind Aeneas of his destiny in Italy (book IV, verses 173-218). This design to illustrate the Aeneid kept Girodet busy from 1811 until his death, producing around 170 drawings. The present sheet is not among the 78 drawings lithographed around 1825. Of a total of eighteen drawings illustrating the Aeneid’s fourth book known from the 1867 sale (see Provenance), four sheets are today in the Rijksmuseum (inv. RP-T-1952-88 to RP-T-1952-91; see R.-J. te Rijdt, De Watteau à Ingres. Dessins français du XVIIIe siècle du Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, exhib. cat., Paris, Institut néerlandais, and Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet, 2003, pp. 257-259), and one in the Musée Girodet in Montargis (inv. 71-29).
| Artist: | Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (1767 - 1824) |
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| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (1767 - 1824) |
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| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
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