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List of illustrations

  • Self-Portrait
  • Portrait of Jacques-François Desmaisons
  • Michel-Jean Sedaine
  • Stage design for Les Femmes Vengées
  • Combat between Minerva and Mars
  • Apollo and Diana Attacking the Children of Niobe
  • Antiochus and Stratonice
  • Belisarius Begging for Alms
  • Charles-Pierre Pécoul
  • Madame Charles-Pierre Pécoul, née Potain
  • Jeanne-Suzanne Sedaine
  • Belisarius Begging Alms, detail
  • Saint Roch Interceding with the Virgin on behalf of the Plague-Stricken
  • Self-portrait
  • The Return of the Prodigal Son
  • Madame de Pompadour at her Tambour Frame
  • Portrait of Jean-Germain Drouais
  • The Resurrection of the Son of the Widow of Naim
  • Christ and the Canaanite Woman
  • Oath of the Horatii
  • Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil
  • Horatius the Elder Defending his Son
  • Horatius kills his sister Camilla
  • Funeral of Patroclus
  • Andromache's Mourning Hector
  • The Oath of the Horatii, detail
  • View of the Salon of 1785
  • The Oath of the Horatii, study
  • The Oath of the Horatii, study
  • A Drawing Academy
  • Floor plans of the French Academy, Palazzo Mancini, Rome
  • The Seated Gladiator
  • Wounded Roman soldier
  • Capitoline Gaul
  • Wounded Roman soldier, detail
  • Tancred and Erminia
  • Rinaldo and Armida
  • Patroclus
  • The Wounded Warrior
  • Marius, prisoner at Minturnae
  • Marius, prisoner at Minturnae, study
  • Marius, prisoner at Minturnae, study
  • Marius, prisoner at Minturnae, study
  • Marius, prisoner at Minturnae, study
  • Marius, prisoner at Minturnae, detail
  • Ariccia, the Palace Emerging from the Trees
  • Church of San Saba, Rome
  • Drawings after Ghiberti, Annibale Carracci, Poussin, and Michelangelo
  • Wounded Warrior from the Villa Albani
  • Draped Woman after Antique Original
  • Caius Gracchus Leaving his House to Calm the Sedition in which He Will Perish
  • Caius Gracchus Leaving his House to Calm the Sedition in which He Will Perish
  • Philoctetes on Lemnos
  • Philoctetes on Lemnos, detail
  • Philoctetes on Lemnos, detail
  • Philoctetes on Lemnos, study
  • Philoctetes on Lemnos
  • Laocoön
  • Claude Michallon with Sculpture for the Tomb of Drouais
  • The Tomb of Drouais
  • House and Garden of Jacques-Louis David, 13, rue d'Enfer
  • Fantasy Tomb of Drouais
  • Self-portrait
  • Benoit-François Trioson
  • Death of Camilla
  • Belisarius Beggings Alms
  • The Oath of the Horatii
  • Nebuchednezzar Ordering the Execution of the Sons of Zedekiah
  • Nebuchednezzar Ordering the Execution of the Sons of Zedekiah
  • Death of Socrates
  • Horatius Killing his Sister
  • The Death of Socrates, study
  • Paris and Helen
  • The Death of Socrates
  • The Death of Socrates, detail
  • Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons
  • The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, detail
  • The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, detail
  • The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, study
  • The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, study
  • The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, detail of study
  • Joseph Recognized by his Brothers
  • Pietà
  • Pietà, detail
  • Descent from the Cross
  • Decapitated Heads of the marquis Delaunay and Major de Losme Salbrai
  • Decapitated Heads of marquis Delaunay, Foulon, and Berthier de Sauvigny
  • Palazzo Mancini
  • Landscape around Naples: Cava dei Tirreni
  • Italian Landscape
  • A.-J. Gorsas Burning the Pope in Effigy
  • The Death of Pyrrhus
  • The Death of Pyrrhus
  • Academic Nude
  • The Death of Abel
  • The Death of Abel, detail
  • The Household Gods of Aeneas Appearing to Him in his Sleep
  • The Sleep of Endymion
  • The Sleep of Endymion, detail
  • The Sleep of Endymion, detail
  • Hippocrates Refusing the Gifts of Artaxerxes
  • Hippocrates Refusing the Gifts of Artaxerxes, study
  • Hippocrates Refusing the Gifts of Artaxerxes, study
  • Hippocrates Refusing the Gifts of Artaxerxes, detail
  • The Death of Caius Gracchus
  • Reason Subduing Fanaticism
  • Jupiter Striking Down the Aristocracy
  • Figure of the French Republic
  • Bassville Presents the French Ultimatum to the Pope
  • The Assassination of Bassville
  • The Assassination of Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau
  • Ceremony to Honor the Memory of Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau
  • The Death of Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau
  • Funeral of Jean-Paul Marat in the Church of the Cordeliers
  • Funeral of Jean-Paul Marat in the Church of the Cordeliers
  • Death of Marat
  • Death of Marat, detail
  • Apollo Belvedere
  • The Death of Joseph Bara
  • Heroic Death of the Young Bara
  • Marat assassinated, July 13, 1793
  • The Death of Joseph Bara
  • Hermaphrodite
  • The Death of Joseph Bara, detail
  • The Death of Joseph Bara, detail
  • The Intervention of the Sabine Women
  • Self-portrait
  • Antoine-Jean Gros
  • Jacques-Louis David
  • Figure of the Republic
  • August 10, 1792
  • The Oath of the Tennis Court
  • The Execution of Louis XVI, study
  • The French People Demanding the Overthrow of the Tyrant on the Tenth of August
  • Marius Returning to Rome
  • The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, detail of study
  • Belisarius
  • Belisarius
  • Liberty or Death
  • Psyche and Cupid
  • François Gérard
  • The House of Anne-Louis Girodet-Troison, rue des Grands Augustins
  • Girodet's Farewell to his Studio
  • Girodet Surrounded by his Pupils
  • Scenes from the Scio Massacres
  • The Death of Phaedra
  • Jean-Baptiste Isabey and his Daughter
  • Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley
  • Jean-Baptiste Belley
  • Danaë
  • Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
  • The Return of Marcus Sextus
  • Portrait of Mlle. Lange as Danae
  • Girodet Directing the Hanging of The New Danaë in the Salon of 1799
  • Triumph of the French People (Allegory of the Tenth of August), fragment
  • Celeste Coltellini, Madame Meuricoffre
  • Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole, November 17, 1796
  • The Death of Timophanes
  • Battle of Nazareth
  • Bonaparte visiting the plague victims of Jaffa (March 11, 1799)
  • Ossian Summoning the Spirits
  • Portrait of Benoît-Agnès Trioson
  • Ossian Receiving the Spirits of the French Heroes
  • Scene from a Deluge
  • Scene from a Deluge, detail
  • The Deluge
  • Aeneas Carrying Anchises from the Ruins of Troy
  • Benoit-François Trioson
  • Leonidas at Thermopylae
  • Self-portrait with Julie Candeille
  • Atala at the tomb
  • The Revolt of Cairo, October 21, 1798
  • The Revolt of Cairo, October 21, 1798, detail
  • Napoléon I in Imperial Costume, study
  • Napoléon I in Imperial Costume
  • Penitent Magdalene
  • Aurora and Cephalus
  • Sappho
  • Sappho and Phaon
  • Pygmalion and Galatea
  • Benoit-François Trioson on his Deathbed
  • Girodet Painting his Pygmalion and Galatea
  • Entry of Henri IV into the city of Paris, March 22, 1594
  • Girodet in his workshop
  • Self-portrait
  • The Entombment
  • Charging Chasseur of the Imperial Guard
  • Charging Chasseur of the Imperial Guard, study
  • Wounded cuirassier leaving the fire
  • Wounded Cuirassier
  • Classical Warriors
  • The Assassins of Fualdès Carrying his Body to the River
  • The Raft of the Medusa
  • Study for the "Raft of the Medusa"
  • Study for The Raft of the Medusa
  • The Raft of the Medusa, study
  • The Raft of the Medusa, detail
  • Study for "Slave Trade"
  • The Liberation of the Prisoners of the Inquisition
  • A Man Suffering from Delusions of Military Rank
  • Portrait of a Kleptomaniac
  • Monomania of Envy
  • The crazy gambling addict
  • Monomania of Child Stealing
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Description: Emulation: David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of Revolutionary France
What follows is a history of missing fathers, of sons left fatherless, and of the substitutes they sought...
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~The substitute family that David came to offer his pupils represented a larger, more organized version of what his own family had once been. He too had lost his father, and at the even earlier age of nine: Maurice David, bankrupt, disgraced and self-exiled in Normandy, had died in...
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~Just ten days after winning the Grand Prix de Rome, Drouais was ready to leave Paris with David and his party. The short delay shows that they had felt little doubt that...
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~~Drouais was marked as an exception, by himself and by his admirers, in a state system that placed a premium on discipline and conformity. Being distant from Paris did not for Drouais lessen the reach of administrative control from Paris; rather, it intensified and concentrated the application of...
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~~On Drouais’s death in...
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~The collective work apparent in the copy of the Socrates and in the Brutus manifests an aesthetic freedom and a liberation of the talents of pupils who elsewhere would have found little outlet for their individuality. But it carried with it a new kind of domination. Already in the Socrates replica, the pupil is constrained to an exacting...
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~In the first months of the newly proclaimed French Republic, Rome more than Paris forced the issue of what it meant to be a Revolutionary artist. It was largely a war of symbols, but symbols that counted for real forms of power and the risk of life and death. Engagement with politics put the development of Girodet’s artistic projects at grievous risk, yet he...
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~In the tense weeks after Marat’s death, Girodet’s Endymion finally went on public display in Paris at the Salon of 1793. The exhibition opened on 10 August, the first anniversary of the monarchy’s downfall in the storming of the Tuileries palace by the forces of the Parisian sans-culottes. Only two days before, the...
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~What of those young allies an imprisoned David left behind? The trauma of Thermidor had intervened...
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~Girodet died in 1824, at the age of fifty-seven, from a tumor of the bladder. The onset of his final crisis was sudden; it came so quickly that the painter was...
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~~In 1800, before the Battle of Nazareth competition began the cycle of Napoleonic military subjects, the artistic requirements of the new order were much less clear than they would become by the middle of the new decade. Gérard,...
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~The Salon of 1806 had been the scene of Girodet’s great claim to equality with David in Scene from a Deluge (pl. 167). It also...
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