id: 149429 accession number: 1978.79 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.79 updated: 2023-04-23 11:15:57.509000 Self-Portrait in a Hat, c. 1790. Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French, 1767–1824). Black chalk, with stumping, heightened with traces of white gouache; sheet: 21.6 x 17.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.); secondary support: 21.6 x 17.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden Fund 1978.79 title: Self-Portrait in a Hat title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1790 creation date earliest: 1785 creation date latest: 1795 current location: creditline: Delia E. Holden Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: black chalk, with stumping, heightened with traces of white gouache 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: 21.6 x 17.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.); Secondary Support: 21.6 x 17.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: light gray wove paper laid down on beige(1) wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper left, in graphite: 13/45 [5 written over a numeral 4] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1978 opening date: 1979-02-13T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979). title: Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings opening date: 1979-05-31T04:00:00 Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 31-August 19, 1979). title: Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure opening date: 1991-11-05T05:00:00 Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992). 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 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 * Exposition "Une Oeuvre": Un Dessin de Girodet. Musée Girodet, Montargis, France (November 3 - 18, 1977). --- PROVENANCE (Adrian Ward-Jackson, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: ?-1978 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1978- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Self-portraiture was a common practice among the young artists who, like Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, worked in the studio of the acclaimed history painter Jacques-Louis David. digital description: Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson created this self-portrait as a young man, in his 20s, while living in Italy after winning the prestigious Prix de Rome. The artist meets the viewer's gaze boldly and directly from underneath his distinctive hat. The drawing is one of several depictions that Girodet created of himself around this time and may have been intended as a gift by exchange for a colleague. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Champion, Jean-Loup. "A Theater of Mirrors: Girodet's Self-Portraits." In Girodet, 1767-1824. Sylvain Bellenger, ed. Exh. Cat. Paris: Gallimard, 2006. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 98-99 url: Arasa, Yaelle. Davidiennes: Les Femmes Peintres de l'Atelier de Jacques-Louis David (1768-1825). Paris: L'Harmattan, 2019. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 124-125 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.79/1978.79_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.79/1978.79_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.79/1978.79_full.tif