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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy Trioson, called Girodet-Trioson (Montargis 1767-1824 Paris)

Portrait of a young man, half-length seated, in a white shirt and brown coat

细节

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy Trioson, called Girodet-Trioson (Montargis 1767-1824 Paris)
Portrait of a young man, half-length seated, in a white shirt and brown coat
signed with monogram (lower left, on the arm of the chair)
oil on canvas
31 x 25½ in. (79 x 65 cm.)

来源

Madame Yvonne Cauvy-Saint-Paul, and by descent.

出版

J. Couvreur, 'Castres célèbre dans sa musée le centenaire de la mort de Lacordaire', Le Monde, 10 June 1961.

展览

Musée Goya, Castres, Centenaire de Lacordaire, 7 June 1961, no. 13.
Musée Nôtre Dame, Paris, Lacordaire, no. 13.

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拍品专文

In 1773, Girodet became a pupil of Luquin, a teacher of drawing at Montargis. The following year he was sent by his father to Paris to live with a family friend, Dr. Trioson, and soon after entered Jacques-Louis David's atelier. In 1789 he came first in the grand prix du concours de Rome and two years later, under the direction of the architect Percier, he was commissioned by Napoleon to paint L'Apothéose des héros français morts pour la patrie for Malmaison. In 1806, after the death of his own son, Dr. Trioson formally adopted Girodet, and from this period, he signed his work 'A.G.T'. In 1815, he was made a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Between 1798 and 1824, Girodet exhibited several portraits at the Salon. Girodet's correspondence, published by Coupin in 1829, underlined how the artist considered portraiture to be the most important of the genres.

This picture, exhibited at the Musée de Goya, Castres, where it was incorrectly described as a portrait of Chateaubriand, is likely to depict a pupil of the artist, although it is not possible to be certain which one, despite Alexandre Colin's 1817 lithograph of Girodet's atelier.

We are grateful to Sylvain Bellenger for confirming the attribution and for his assistance in this catalogue entry, having examined the picture in the original. picture.