Jan 25, 2006 - Sale 2064

Sale 2064 - Lot 214

Price Realized: $ 8,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ANNE-LOUIS GIRODET DE ROUSSY-TRIOSON
(Montargis 1767-1824 Paris)
Anchises Shows Aeneas the Birth of Rome and the Republic.

Pencil on cream laid paper. 233x365 mm; 91/8x143/8 inches. Incribed "LIB. VI/No. 20" in pencil, lower left recto. Ex-collection Pannetier, to 1867; Firmin-Didot, Paris; and Heim Gallery, London. Exhibited "French Drawings, Neoclassicism," Heim Gallery, London, February 20-March 27, 1975, number 57.

This drawing was reproduced as a lithograph, plate 54, in the Énéide, Suite de compositions dessinnées au trait part Girodet, Paris, circa 1827.