Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson

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Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson
1767-1824
Chryses Mourning the Loss of his Daughter to Agamemnon (Study for the Iliad)
ca. 1811
Pen and gray and brown ink on paper.
9 1/2 x 13 in. (241 x 330 mm)
Bequest of John M. Thayer.
2005.87
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Watermark: figure holding banner overhead.

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Inscribed in Greek on rock at left; inscribed on verso in graphite, "Casper David Friedrich / Füssli / Blake". Stamped "Collection Coutan-Haughet Schubert-Milliet" in a circle at lower center (L.464)

Provenance: 
Sale, New York, Christie's, 27 May 1983, lot 221; John M. Thayer, Wilmington, DE.
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Thayer, John M. (John MacLane), 1944-2004, former owner.

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