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Tempête (Tempest) Illustration for Virgil's Aeneid, I. 81-123
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (French, 1767–1824)
about 1820–24
Medium/Technique
Black chalk
Dimensions
Sheet: 27 x 41.9 cm (10 5/8 x 16 1/2 in.)
Framed: 54.9 x 66 cm (21 5/8 x 26 in.)
Framed: 54.9 x 66 cm (21 5/8 x 26 in.)
Credit Line
Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund
Accession Number1999.7
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceFrom the artist to his pupil, Antoine-Claude Pannetier (b. 1772 - d. 1859), Paris; 1859, M. de la Bordes. Ambroise Firmin-Didot (b. 1790 - d. 1860), Paris; his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, April 15, 1867, lot 3. November 7, 1971, anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, lot 1. June 17, 1987, anonymous (private collection) sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 37. February 12, 1997, anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, lot 165. 1999, sold by Mark Brady, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 24, 1999)