Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson Painting Reproductions 1 of 1
1767-1824
French Neoclassical Painter
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (also given as Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Triosson, Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson) January 5, 1767 - December 9, 1824), French painter, was born at Montargis.
He lost his parents in early youth and the care of his fortune and education fell to the lot of his guardian, M. Trioson, "medecin-de-mesdames," by whom he was in later life adopted. After some preliminary studies under a painter named Luquin, Girodet entered the school of David and at the age of twenty-two he successfully competed for the Prix de Rome. At Rome he executed his "Hippocrate refusant les presents d'Artaxerxes" and "Endymion-dormant" (Louvre), work which was hailed with acclamation at the Salon of 1792.
The peculiarities which mark Girodet's position as the herald of the romantic movement are already evident in his "Endymion." The firm-set forms, the grey cold colour, the hardness of the execution are proper to one trained in the school of David, but these characteristics harmonize ill with the literary, sentimental and picturesque suggestions which the painter has sought to render.
The same incongruity marks Girodet's "Danae" and his "Quatre Saisons," executed for the king of Spain (repeated for Compiègne), and shows itself to a ludicrous extent in his "Fingal" St Petersburg, Leuchtenberg collection), executed for Napoleon in 1802. This work unites the defects of the classic and romantic schools, for Girodet's imagination ardently and exclusively pursued the ideas excited by varied reading both of classic and of modern literature, and the impressions which he received from the external world afforded him little stimulus or check; he consequently retained the mannerisms of his master's practice whilst rejecting all restraint on choice of subject.
The credit lost by "Fingal" Girodet regained in 1806, when he exhibited "Scène de déluge" (Louvre), to which (in competition with the "Sabines" of David) was awarded the decennial prize. This success was followed up in 1808 by the production of the "Reddition de Vienne" and "Atala au Tombeau" a work which went far to deserve its immense popularity, by a happy choice of subject, and remarkable freedom from the theatricality of Girodet's usual manner, which, however, soon came to the front again in his "La Révolte du Caire" (1810).
His powers now began to fail, and his habit of working at night and other excesses told upon his constitution; in the Salon of 1812 he exhibited only a "Tete de Vierge"; in 1819 "Pygmalion et Galatée" showed a still further decline of strength; and in 1824--the year in which he produced his portraits of Cathelineau and Bonchamps--Girodet died on the 9th of December.
He executed a vast quantity of illustrations, amongst which may be cited those to the Didot Virgil (1798) and to the Louvre Racine (1801-1805). Fifty-four of his designs for Anacreon were engraved by M. Châtillon. Girodet wasted much time on literary composition, his poem Le Peintre (a string of commonplaces), together with poor imitations of classical poets, and essays on Le Genie and La Grâce, were published after his death (1829), with a biographical notice by his friend M. Coupin de la Couperie; and M. Delecluze, in his Louis David et son temps, has also a brief life of Girodet.
He lost his parents in early youth and the care of his fortune and education fell to the lot of his guardian, M. Trioson, "medecin-de-mesdames," by whom he was in later life adopted. After some preliminary studies under a painter named Luquin, Girodet entered the school of David and at the age of twenty-two he successfully competed for the Prix de Rome. At Rome he executed his "Hippocrate refusant les presents d'Artaxerxes" and "Endymion-dormant" (Louvre), work which was hailed with acclamation at the Salon of 1792.
The peculiarities which mark Girodet's position as the herald of the romantic movement are already evident in his "Endymion." The firm-set forms, the grey cold colour, the hardness of the execution are proper to one trained in the school of David, but these characteristics harmonize ill with the literary, sentimental and picturesque suggestions which the painter has sought to render.
The same incongruity marks Girodet's "Danae" and his "Quatre Saisons," executed for the king of Spain (repeated for Compiègne), and shows itself to a ludicrous extent in his "Fingal" St Petersburg, Leuchtenberg collection), executed for Napoleon in 1802. This work unites the defects of the classic and romantic schools, for Girodet's imagination ardently and exclusively pursued the ideas excited by varied reading both of classic and of modern literature, and the impressions which he received from the external world afforded him little stimulus or check; he consequently retained the mannerisms of his master's practice whilst rejecting all restraint on choice of subject.
The credit lost by "Fingal" Girodet regained in 1806, when he exhibited "Scène de déluge" (Louvre), to which (in competition with the "Sabines" of David) was awarded the decennial prize. This success was followed up in 1808 by the production of the "Reddition de Vienne" and "Atala au Tombeau" a work which went far to deserve its immense popularity, by a happy choice of subject, and remarkable freedom from the theatricality of Girodet's usual manner, which, however, soon came to the front again in his "La Révolte du Caire" (1810).
His powers now began to fail, and his habit of working at night and other excesses told upon his constitution; in the Salon of 1812 he exhibited only a "Tete de Vierge"; in 1819 "Pygmalion et Galatée" showed a still further decline of strength; and in 1824--the year in which he produced his portraits of Cathelineau and Bonchamps--Girodet died on the 9th of December.
He executed a vast quantity of illustrations, amongst which may be cited those to the Didot Virgil (1798) and to the Louvre Racine (1801-1805). Fifty-four of his designs for Anacreon were engraved by M. Châtillon. Girodet wasted much time on literary composition, his poem Le Peintre (a string of commonplaces), together with poor imitations of classical poets, and essays on Le Genie and La Grâce, were published after his death (1829), with a biographical notice by his friend M. Coupin de la Couperie; and M. Delecluze, in his Louis David et son temps, has also a brief life of Girodet.
16 Girodet de Roussy-Trioson Paintings
The Entombment of Atala (The Burial of Atala) 1808
Oil Painting
$4606
$4606
Canvas Print
$59.85
$59.85
SKU: GAL-2534
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 207 x 267 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 207 x 267 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Head of a Woman in a Turban c.1820
Oil Painting
$1849
$1849
Canvas Print
$50.64
$50.64
SKU: GAL-2535
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 41 x 33.5 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 41 x 33.5 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Hortense de Beauharnais 1808
Oil Painting
$1819
$1819
Canvas Print
$62.37
$62.37
SKU: GAL-2536
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 61 x 49.8 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 61 x 49.8 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Portrait of a Young Man n.d.
Oil Painting
$1821
$1821
SKU: GAL-2537
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 71.8 x 58.4 cm
Private Collection
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 71.8 x 58.4 cm
Private Collection
Napoleon in Coronation Robes c.1812
Oil Painting
$5032
$5032
Canvas Print
$54.69
$54.69
SKU: GAL-4413
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 256 x 183.3 cm
Bowes Museum, County Durham, United Kingdom
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 256 x 183.3 cm
Bowes Museum, County Durham, United Kingdom
Self Portrait n.d.
Oil Painting
$1307
$1307
Canvas Print
$50.64
$50.64
SKU: GAL-4414
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 59 x 46 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 59 x 46 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Sleep of Endymion 1783
Oil Painting
$3311
$3311
Canvas Print
$57.91
$57.91
SKU: GAL-4415
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 198 x 261 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 198 x 261 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Portrait of Madame Jacques-Louis Etienne Reizet ... 1823
Oil Painting
$1898
$1898
Canvas Print
$62.51
$62.51
SKU: GAL-4416
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 60.3 x 49.5 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 60.3 x 49.5 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Portrait of Mlle Lange as Danae 1799
Oil Painting
$2686
$2686
Canvas Print
$63.20
$63.20
SKU: GAL-4417
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 60.3 x 48.5 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 60.3 x 48.5 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA
Portrait of a Young Man as a Hunter 1811
Oil Painting
$1819
$1819
Canvas Print
$64.32
$64.32
SKU: GAL-4418
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 65 x 54.5 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 65 x 54.5 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Portrait of Baron Jean-Dominique Larrey 1804
Oil Painting
$1954
$1954
SKU: GAL-4419
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 65 x 55 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 65 x 55 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Portrait of Jacques Cathelineau commander of the Vendee c.1816/24
Oil Painting
$4210
$4210
Canvas Print
$50.64
$50.64
SKU: GAL-4420
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 220 x 150 cm
Museum of Palace of Versailles, Paris, France
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 220 x 150 cm
Museum of Palace of Versailles, Paris, France
Portrait of Benoit-Agnes Trioson 1800
Oil Painting
$2427
$2427
Canvas Print
$61.95
$61.95
SKU: GAL-4421
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 73 x 59.5 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 73 x 59.5 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Pygmalion and Galatea c.1813/19
Oil Painting
$3539
$3539
Canvas Print
$61.95
$61.95
SKU: GAL-16415
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 253 x 202 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 253 x 202 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Portrait of Jacques-Joseph de Cathelineau c.1822
Oil Painting
$1637
$1637
SKU: GAL-18009
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 55 x 47 cm
Private Collection
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 55 x 47 cm
Private Collection
Apotheosis of the French Heros who Died for the ... c.1800
Canvas Print
$73.67
$73.67
SKU: GAL-19445
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 192.5 x 184 cm
Musee du Chateau de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison, France
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Original Size: 192.5 x 184 cm
Musee du Chateau de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison, France