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"inscription": "secondary support, lower right, in graphite: 1767 - 1824 - Girodet Trioson; verso of secondary support, upper left, in graphite: 32 [circled]; upper left, in graphite: nv 15980 [underlined] / 2; upper left, in graphite: Girodet Trioson; lower right, in graphite: 15257 1777; lower right, in graphite: [h7?]",
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"title": "French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin",
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"description": "Girodet made this linear study early on in the process of planning his Revolt of Cairo (see photo), which today hangs in the National Museum of the Ch\u00e2teau of Versailles. The composition shows French soldiers crushing a rebellion in Cairo prompted by Napoleon's invasion and occupation of the city in 1798. The very thin support of the drawing and its even contour lines indicate that the artist might have produced it by tracing an earlier version of the composition. The museum owns a rough oil sketch for The Revolt of Cairo that is about half the size of the present drawing.",
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