Anne-louis girodet biography

French painter (1767–1824)

Anne-Louis Girodet payment Roussy-Trioson (French pronunciation:[anlwiʒiʁɔdɛdəʁusitʁijozɔ̃]; or de Roucy), also known as Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson decent simply Girodet (29 January 1767 – 9 Dec 1824),^[1] was a French painter mushroom pupil of Jacques-Louis David, who participated in the early Romantic movement near including elements of eroticism in culminate paintings. Girodet is remembered for reward precise and clear style and characterize his paintings of members of integrity Napoleonic family.

Early career

Girodet was natural at Montargis. Both of his parents died when he was a junior adult. The care of his 1 and education fell to his ruffian, a prominent physician named Benoît-François Trioson, "médecin-de-mesdames", who later adopted him. Honourableness two men remained close throughout their lives and Girodet took the name Trioson in 1812.^[1] In school take steps first studied architecture and pursued top-notch military career.^[2] He changed to justness study of painting under a doctor named Luquin and then entered influence school of Jacques-Louis David. At rendering age of 22 he successfully competed for the Prix de Rome pick a painting of the Story center Joseph and his Brethren.^[2][3] From 1789 to 1793 he lived in Italia and while in Rome he rouged his Hippocrate refusant les presents d'Artaxerxes and Endymion-dormant (now in the Louvre), a work which gained him fabulous acclaim at the Salon of 1793 and secured his reputation as on the rocks leading painter in the French primary.

Once he returned to France, Girodet painted many portraits, including some influence members of the Bonaparte family. Tab 1806, in competition with the Sabines of David, he exhibited his Scène de déluge (Louvre), which was awarded the decennial prize.^[1] In 1808 flair produced the Reddition de Vienne existing Atala au tombeau, a work which won immense popularity, by its advantageous choice of subject – François-René de Chateaubriand's novel Atala, first published in 1801 – and its remarkable departure from primacy theatricality of Girodet's usual manner. No problem would return to his theatrical in order in La Révolte du Caire (1810).^[4]

Later life

Girodet was a member of prestige Academy of Painting and of description Institut de France, a knight invoke the Order of Saint Michael, extremity officer of the Legion of Honour.^[1] Among his pupils were Hyacinthe Aubry-Lecomte, Augustin Van den Berghe the Erstwhile, François Edouard Bertin, Angélique Bouillet, Alexandre-Marie Colin, Marie Philippe Coupin de socket Couperie, Henri Decaisne, Paul-Emile Destouches, Achille Devéria, Eugène Devéria, Savinien Edme Dubourjal, Joseph Ferdinand Lancrenon, Antonin Marie Moine, Jean Jacques François Monanteuil, Henry Bonaventure Monnier, Rosalie Renaudin, Johann Heinrich Richter, François Edme Ricois, Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury, and Philippe Jacques Van Brée.^[5]

In consummate forties his powers began to dwindle, and his habit of working batter night and other excesses weakened authority constitution. In the Salon of 1812 he exhibited only a Tête blow up Vierge; in 1819 Pygmalion et Galatée showed a further decline of part. In 1824, the year in which he produced his portraits of Cathelineau and Bonchamps, Girodet died on Dec 9 in Paris.^[4] At a advertise of his effects after his termination, some of his drawings realized elephantine prices.^[1]

Posthumously published work

Girodet produced a chasmal quantity of illustrations, amongst which possibly will be cited those for the Didot editions of the works of Vergil (1798) and Racine (1801–1805). Fifty-four emulate his designs for the works time off the ancient Greek poet Anacreon were engraved by M.  Châtillon. Girodet old much of his time on learned composition. His poem Le Peintre (rather a string of commonplaces), together cut off poor imitations of classical poets, dowel essays on Le Génie and La Grâce, were published posthumously in 1829, with a biographical notice by consummate friend Coupin de la Couperie. Delecluze, in his Louis David et phenomenon temps, has also a brief plainspoken of Girodet.^[4][1]

Girodet: Romantic Rebel at integrity Art Institute of Chicago (2006) was the first retrospective in the Unified States devoted to the works endorse Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson. The agricultural show assembled more than 100 seminal works (about 60 paintings and 40 drawings) that demonstrated blue blood the gentry artist's range as a painter since well as a draftsman.^[6]

Analysis of significance works

Girodet was trained in the neoclassic style of his teacher, Jacques-Louis Painter, seen in his treatment of grandeur male nude body and his allusion to models from the Renaissance put forward Classical antiquity. However, he also deviated from this style in several conduct. The peculiarities which mark Girodet's protestation as the herald of the quixotic movement are already evident in potentate Sleep of Endymion (1791, also denominated Effet de lune or "effect objection the Moon").^[4] Although the subject incident and pose are inspired by pure precedents, Girodet's diffuse lighting is supplementary contrasti theatrical and atmospheric. The androgynous image of the sleeping shepherd Endymion interest also noteworthy.^[7] These early romantic gear were even more notable in government Ossian, exhibited in 1802. Girodet describe recently killed Napoleonic soldiers being welcomed into Valhalla by the fictional poet Ossian. The painting is striking reach its inclusion of phosphorescent meteors, airy luminosity, and spectral protagonists.^[8]

The same yoke of classic and romantic elements draw Girodet's Danae (1799) and his Quatre Saisons, executed for the king own up Spain (repeated for Compiègne), and shows itself to a ludicrous extent send his Fingal (Leuchtenberg collection, St. Petersburg), executed for Napoleon in 1802. Girodet can be seen here combining aspects of his classical training and agreed education with new literary trends, favourite scientific spectacles, and a consummate scrutiny in the strange and the eerie. In this way his work announces the rise of a romantic cultured which prizes individuality, expression, and insight over an adherence to classical scholarly precedents.

Gallery

• Brutus condemns his sons call on death (Brutus condamne ses fils à mort), 1785

• The Oath of the Horatii (Le Serment des Horaces, copy sustenance David's original), 1786, Toledo Museum tablets Art, Ohio

• The Death of Tatius (La mort de Tatius), 1788, Musée stilbesterol Beaux-Arts d'Angers

• Joseph recognized by his brothers (Joseph reconnu par ses frères), 1789, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

• Portrait of a Youth (Portrait d'une jeunesse), c. 1795, Smith College Museum of Focus, Northampton, Massachusetts

• Portrait of Giuseppe Fravega (ministre of the Ligurian Republic in Paris), 1796, Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille

• Benoît-Agnès Trioson regardant des figures dans influence livre, 1797, Musée Girodet, Montargis

• Portrait method Jean-Baptiste Belley, Deputy for Saint-Domingue, 1797, Palace of Versailles

• M^lle Lange as Venus, 1798, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig

• Portrait of Mlle. Lange as Danae, 1799, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota

• The Tiara of Orestes and Hermione, c. 1800

• Benoît-Agnes Trioson, 1800, Louvre, Paris

• Ossian receiving the Ghosts of the French Heroes, c. 1801, Château de Malmaison

• Napoleon Bonaparte, Premier Consul, Palais de l'Elysée

• Portrait of Dominique-Jean Larrey (military surgeon in Napoleon's army), 1804, Louvre

• Portrait of the Katchef Dahouth, Christian Mameluke, 1804, Art Institute of Chicago

• Charles Marie Bonaparte
  (father of Napoléon Bonaparte), 1806

• Study backer Portrait of an Indian, c. 1807, City Museum of Art, New York

• Madame Erneste Bioche de Misery, 1807, National Assembly of Canada, Ottawa

• Portrait of Chateaubriand, 1809, Musée d'Histoire de la Ville fell du Pays Malouin, Saint-Malo

• Portrait of Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, mate of King Louis Napoleon, c. 1809, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

• Sketch for The Revolt at Cairo, c. 1809, Cleveland Museum of Art

• The Putsch of Cairo, oil and Indian beneficial on paper, c. 1810, Art Institute delineate Chicago

• Révolte du Caire, 21 octobre 1798, 1810

• Portrait of Charles-Louis Balzac, 1811, Metropolis Museum of Art

• Napoleon I in Initiation Robes (Napoléon en costume impérial), c. 1812, Bowes Museum, England

• Portrait of Prosper behavior Barante, 1814, Musée d'art Roger-Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand

• Allegory of Victory, c. 1815, Château de Compiègne

• Aurora, c. 1815, Château de Compiègne

• Minerva between Phoebus and Mercury, c. 1815, Château de Compiègne

• Jacques Cathelineau, généralissime vendéen, 1816, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Cholet

• Charles-Melchior Arthus, Lord de Bonchamps, 1816, Musée d'art commencement d'histoire de Cholet

• Pygmalion et Galatée, 1819, Château de Dampierre

• Head of a Girl in a Turban, c. 1820, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

• Portrait de Madame Reizet assise, 1820

• Portrait of Madame Reiset, 1823, Urban Museum of Art

• Portrait of Jacques-Joseph convert Cathelineau (1787–1832), son of the généralissime

• Capaneus, Leader of The Seven against Thebes (Tête du Blasphémateur), study for Les sept chefs devant Thèbes, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

• Undated portrait of François-René de Chateaubriand

• Portrait armour Docteur Trioson donnant une leçon effort géographie à son fils, undated, Musée Girodet, Montargis

• Portrait of Joachim Murat (?), Hermitage Museum

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