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This is a preparatory sketch for a monumental painting depicting one of the bloodiest moments of Napoleon’s 1798 invasion of Egypt: the suppression of an uprising in Cairo. The conflict included a massacre in the Al-Azhar Mosque of Mamelukes, a military class of enslaved men who occupied much of the Middle East at that time. As there were no surviving eyewitness reports, Girodet was free to interpret the event as he wished, and, as a commission from Napoleon, the painting celebrates the French point of view. Throughout the work, Girodet perpetuates European fantasies of the Middle East as simultaneously opulent and brutal, lavishing attention on Arab and Ottoman turbans, luxurious fabrics, bare flesh, and gore.
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| Medium | paper (fiber product) |
| Dimensions | 45 × 30 Cm |
| Tags | battlesbloodcolonialismdeathEgyptfabricFrancegunsluxurysketchsmokesoldiersswordstextileviolence |
| Certificate | Certificate not provided |
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sold to Galerie Charles Ratton-Guy Ladrière, Paris
sold to Galerie Charles Ratton-Guy Ladrière, Paris
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P. A. Coupin, Oeuvres Posthumes de Girodet-Trioson vol. 1
P. A. Coupin, Oeuvres Posthumes de Girodet-Trioson vol. 1 (Paris, 1829), p. 72.
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Sylvain Bellenger, “Too Learned for Us: The Destiny of a Painter Poet,” “Terror and Grace: Girodet, Poet of Painting,” “Royalist or Revolutionary? Girodet and the New Order,” “Girodet and Boutard: Portrait of an Artistic and Journalistic Pa...
Sylvain Bellenger, “Too Learned for Us: The Destiny of a Painter Poet,” “Terror and Grace: Girodet, Poet of Painting,” “Royalist or Revolutionary? Girodet and the New Order,” “Girodet and Boutard: Portrait of an Artistic and Journalistic Partnership under Napoleon l,” Girodet: 1767-1824, Exh. cat. (Musée du Louvre Editions, 2006), p.18, (ill.), p. 19, p. 28, p. 35, p. 37, p. 40, p. 76, p. 108, p. 110, p. 115, p. 133, cat. 55.
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sold to Richard L....
sold to Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York by 1999 [according to Jean Christophe Baudequin’s email of July 27, 2006, copy in curatorial file]
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exhibition
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Girodet 1767-1824, September 22, 2005-January 2, 2006; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, February 11-April 30, 2006; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 24-August 27, 2006; Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts...
Paris, Musée du Louvre , Girodet 1767-1824, September 22, 2005-January 2, 2006; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, February 11-April 30, 2006; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 24-August 27, 2006; Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, October 12, 2006-January 21, 2007, cat. 57, ill.
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Jean-Marie Voignier, “La Fortune de Girodet,” Bulletin de la Société d’émulation de l’arrondissement de Montargis nos. 128-29
Jean-Marie Voignier, “La Fortune de Girodet,” Bulletin de la Société d’émulation de l’arrondissement de Montargis nos. 128-29 (April 2005), pp. 23, 100, 127, 140.
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sold for 2,850 francs to Jacobs [according to Voignier 2005]....
sold for 2,850 francs to Jacobs [according to Voignier 2005]. Joseph Basile Ducos
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Valérie Bajou and Sidonie Lemeux-Fraitot, Inventaires après décès de Gros et de Girodet: Document inédits
Valérie Bajou and Sidonie Lemeux-Fraitot, Inventaires après décès de Gros et de Girodet: Document inédits (2002), pp. 222, 294-95, no. 107.
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Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France (New Haven and London, 2002), p. 150 (ill.), 151.
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Carter E. Foster et al., French Master Drawings From the Collection of Muriel Butkin, exhib. cat.
Carter E. Foster et al., French Master Drawings From the Collection of Muriel Butkin, exhib. cat. (Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001), p. 58 (ill.).
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sold Paris, December 18, 1837, lot 18....
sold Paris, December 18, 1837, lot 18. Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 25, 1987, lot 37
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Girodet Sale, Paris, April 11, 1825, lot 17
Girodet Sale, Paris, April 11, 1825, lot 17
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The artist’s studio, estate inventory, April 11, 1825, no....
The artist’s studio, estate inventory, April 11, 1825, no. 107 [see Bajou and Lemeux-Fraitot 2002]
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“Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1999,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts: La Chronique des Arts per. 6, t. 135
“Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1999,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts: La Chronique des Arts per. 6, t. 135 (March 2000), p. 58, fig. 226.
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sold to the Art Institute, 1999.
sold to the Art Institute, 1999.
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Louise d’Argencourt and Roger Diederen, European Paintings of the 19th Century: The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings: Part Four vol. 1
Louise d’Argencourt and Roger Diederen, European Paintings of the 19th Century: The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings: Part Four vol. 1 (Cleveland, 1999), pp. 299, 300.
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