Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen
Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson
The Death of Pyrrhus
Auction Closed
October 18, 03:29 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson
Montargis 1767 - 1824 Paris
The Death of Pyrrhus
oil on paper, mounted on canvas
canvas: 10 1/4 by 14 3/4 in.; 26 by 37.5 cm.
framed: 18 1/2 by 23 5/8 in.; 47 by 60 cm.
Penha Longa, Paris;
Pierre Olivier Dubaut, Paris, by 1963;
Claude Aubry, Paris;
From whom acquired by Richard L. Feigen, 26 March 1973 (as Baron Gros).
P.A. Coupin, Oeuvres posthumes de Girodet-Trioson, Paris 1839, vol. I, p. lxxiv;
G. Martin-Méry, Delacroix ses maîtres, ses amis, ses élèves, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1963, pp. 122-123, cat. no. 295;
M.L.H. Reymert, Ingres & Delacroix through Degas & Puvis de Chavannes: The Figure in French Art, 1800-1870, exhibition catalogue, New York 1975, pp. 27-28, cat. no. 12 (as Gros, Marius at Minturnae);
Neo-classicism and Romanticism in French painting, 1774-1826, exhibition catalogue, New York 1994, pp. 56-58, cat. no. 17, reproduced p. 57;
T. Crow, Emulation: Making Artists for Revolutionary France, New Haven and London 1995, pp. 128-130, 320 (under notes 49-51), reproduced fig. 96;
R. Dagorne et. al., Au-Dela du Maitre: Girodet et l'Atelier de David, exhibition catalogue, Montargis 2005, pp. 43-44, reproduced fig. 34;
S. Bellenger, Girodet: 1767-1824, exhibition catalogue, Paris 2005, p. 29, cat. no. 12, reproduced;
M. Korchane, ed., La Dernière Nuit de Troie, exhibition catalogue, Angers 2012, pp. 97-98, 106, 171, cat. no. 24, reproduced p. 106.
Paris, Atelier Delacroix, Delacroix et les maîtres de la couleur, 1952, no. 10 (as Baron Gros, Marius at Minturnae);
Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, Gros, Gericault, Delacroix, 1954 (as Baron Gros);
Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Delacroix ses maîtres, ses amis, ses élèves, 17 May - 30 September 1963, no. 295 (as Baron Gros, Marius at Minturnae);
New York, Shepherd Gallery, Ingres & Delacroix through Degas & Puvis de Chavannes: the figure in French art, 1800-1870, May - June 1975, no. 12 (as Baron Gros, Marius at Minturnae);
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Gesture and Expression: The Language of Art in the Age of Revolution, 28 February - 30 April 1989 (as Girodet, Marius at Minturnae);
New York, Richard L. Feigen, Neo-Classicism and Romanticism in French Painting 1774-1826, 17 May - 15 July 1994, no. 17;
Paris, Louvre; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Montreal, Musée des Beaux Arts, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Triosson (1767-1824), 22 September 2005 - 21 January 2007, no. 12;
Angers, Musées D'Angers, La Dernière Nuit de Troie, 25 May - 2 September 2012, no. 24.