About the Artwork
Aphrodite
between late 18th and early 19th century
Anne Louis Girodet de Rouchy Trioson
1767-1824
French
Unknown
Pen and brown ink and gray wash with black chalk on yellow ivory tracing paper
Sheet: 18 7/8 × 12 7/8 inches (47.9 × 32.7 cm) Framed: 27 1/2 × 21 1/4 × 1 3/8 inches (69.9 × 54 × 3.5 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR131
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower right: Girodet | 12 [underscored]
Stamp, in brown, lower right: J. Peoli (Lugt. suppl. 2020)
Provenance
J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA)
May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) no. 227. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1992, pp. 208-209, no. 97.
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school of Anne Louis Girodet de Rouchy Trioson, Aphrodite, between late 18th and early 19th century, pen and brown ink and gray wash with black chalk on yellow ivory tracing paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR131.
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