Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson
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Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson
1767-1824
Les Présages de pluie
Black chalk on paper.
10 5/8 x 14 13/16 inches (270 x 376 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Catherine Mellon Conover and Elizabeth de Cuevas.
1985.12
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This is a preparatory study for one of the four illustrations to the "Georgics" of Virgil, published in "Compositions tirées des Géorgiques lithographiées par ses élèves et publiées par Mr. Pannetier", 1827.
Provenance:
Firmin-Didot, Paris; sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 4 November 1981, part of lot 71; Galerie Cailleux, Paris.
Associated names:
Conover, Catherine Mellon, donor.
Strong-Cuevas, Elizabeth, donor.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 344.
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