id: 147431 accession number: 1973.172 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.172 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:34.065000 Two Arabs, for The Revolt of Cairo, c. 1810. Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French, 1767–1824). Black chalk heightened with white chalk, with traces of blue chalk; sheet: 45.4 x 41.2 cm (17 7/8 x 16 1/4 in.); secondary support: 50.4 x 45.2 cm (19 13/16 x 17 13/16 in.); tertiary support: 50.4 x 45.2 cm (19 13/16 x 17 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1973.172 title: Two Arabs, for The Revolt of Cairo title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1810 creation date earliest: 1805 creation date latest: 1815 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: black chalk heightened with white chalk, with traces of blue chalk department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French, 1767–1824) - artist On the advice of his architecture instructor Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728-1799), Girodet enrolled in the atelier of David (q.v.) in 1783 to study painting, working alongside other young artists like Gros (q.v.) and Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Wicar (1762-1834) who were also taught in David's neoclassical style. Girodet's early works display the influence of David in the linear and sculptural quality of his figures. After three consecutive years of competing for the Prix de Rome, he finally won at his fourth effort in 1789. Later that year the Revolution broke out in France and Girodet made numerous drawings of the fall of the Bastille. In 1790 he left for Italy where he stayed for five years. During that time his style changed and softened under the influence of the works of Leonardo (1452-1519) and Correggio (1489/94-1534). Girodet strove to be unique and original in his depictions and even went to great lengths to oppose David's neoclassicism. His new interest in atmospheric and light effects differed from that of his teacher. He made a name for himself at the Salon of 1793, with his submission of Sleep of Endymion (Musée du Louvre, Paris). After his return to Paris from Italy, Girodet became known as a portrait painter and accepted numerous commissions, but many of them were either late in delivery or never completed. Girodet's tendency to interpret commissions to prove his own originality often offended and alienated his patrons. He did not find official success at the Salon again until 1808 and produced little after 1815. --- measurements: Sheet: 45.4 x 41.2 cm (17 7/8 x 16 1/4 in.); Secondary Support: 50.4 x 45.2 cm (19 13/16 x 17 13/16 in.); Tertiary Support: 50.4 x 45.2 cm (19 13/16 x 17 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige? wove paper, discolored to brown, perimeter mounted to a false margin of blue wove paper, laid down on a teriary support of beige(1) wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower left, in black ink: Etude pour "la bataille du Caire" ; lower center, in black ink: Gitodet ; VERSO, upper left, in graphite: Girodet [underlined] ; upper cener, in graphite: Etude pour la bataille du Caire (Musée de Versailles) ; ON A SEPERATELY APPLIED PIECE OF PAPER, verso, center, printed in black ink: Quai Malaquais Nº 19, / MALARD / Sussefseur de M. Gerset, / Fait l'Encadermentet le Collage des Dessins, / Gravures, Passe-Partouts, &c, &c. / A PARIS ; ON A FRAME BACKING (now removed, fragment in departmental file), in black ink: Girodet de Roucy Trioson / Etude pour la "bataille du Caire" (musée de Versailles) [parentheses part of inscription] / - anc. coll de musigny ; ON A SEPERATELY APPLIED PIECE OF PAPER (on an old backing, on removed and in departmental file), printed in black ink: GIRODET / 108. --- Combat entre un Français et un Arabe / Pierre noire, rehaussée / Vente [illegible] 6 Déc. 1903 [the last line inscribed in black ink] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1973 opening date: 1974-01-30T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1973. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974). title: Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism opening date: 1980-02-19T05:00:00 Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980). title: Rococo, Revolution, Restoration opening date: 1989-07-11T04:00:00 Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989). title: French Drawings from the Collection opening date: 1994-12-13T05:00:00 French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995). title: Girodet: Romantic Rebel opening date: 2005-09-19T00:00:00 Girodet: Romantic Rebel. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (February 11-April 30, 2006); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (May 22-August 27, 2006); Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (October 12, 2006-January 21, 2007). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA, "Gallery J--Drawings" (July 29, 1975-Feb. 1976?) (is among a list of drawings in Gallery J, this list being found at the end of a list of prints that were in other galleries from July 29, 1975-Feb. 1976 for a little show called "The Vocabulary of Prints"--see exhs. file).', 'opening_date': '1975-07-29T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, Shepherd Gallery, Ingres and Delacroix through Degas and Puvis de Chavannes: The Figure in French Art, 1800-1870 (1975), no. 6, illus.', 'opening_date': '1975-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Musigny (according to inscription on old frame backing). [sale, 6 December 1903] (according to inscription on old frame backing). [Walter Goetz] date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "The Year in Review for 1973." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (1974): 31-78. page number: p. 75 no. 77, illus. p. 47. url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152513 Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. page number: pp. 72-3, illus. url: Bellenger, Sylvain, ed. Girodet, 1767-1824. [Paris, France]: Gallimard, 2006. page number: Reproduced: p. 315, cat. 63 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.172/1973.172_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.172/1973.172_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.172/1973.172_full.tif