on Aug 27th, 2006Metropolitan Museum Girodet Romantic Rebel
François-René de Chateaubriand, 1808
Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (French, 1767–1824)
Oil on canvas; 47 1/4 x 37 13/16 in. (120 x 96 cm)
Musée d’Histoire et d’Ethnographie, Saint-Malo
If you’re in New York, a visit to the Metropolitan Museum is worth a trip to see the Girodet exhibition. It closes August 27, 2006. Be sure to hit the rooftop garden. It’s quintessential New York, especially on Friday and Saturday evenings.
Girodet: Romantic Rebel
May 24, 2006–August 27, 2006
Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor
This is the first American retrospective devoted to A. L. Girodet-Trioson (1767–1824), a favored but rebellious pupil of Jacques-Louis David. Girodet’s idiosyncratic style fuses David’s Neoclassical ideal with his own prescient Romantic vision. A selection of approximately 100 paintings and works on paper reflects his originality and the diversity of his works, from mythological subjects to portraits and representations of Napoleon’s military triumphs.