#Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

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Dominique Jean Larrey, 1804

He was a French surgeon and military doctor during the Napoleonic Wars. He accompanied Napoleon on almost all of his campaigns. Napoleon called him “the most virtuous man I have ever known.”

Among his many innovations include introducing field hospitals, ambulance services, and first-aid practices to the battlefield. He was also the first to note the contagiousness of trachoma (1802) and published the first description of trench foot (1812).

Napoleon would say this of Larrey: “If the Army were to erect a monument of the memory of any one man, it should be that of Larrey. All the wounded are his family.”

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

Marie-Guillemine Benoist

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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

Aurora and Cephalus by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (1810)

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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French, 1767 - 1824)

Phaedra Rejecting the Embraces of Theseus, about 1800

Pencil, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white gouache

Unframed: 33.7 × 22.5 cm (13 1/4 × 8 7/8 in.)

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 85.GG.209

Source: www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103QYP

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The Shadow of Hector Appears to Aeneas or The Dream of Aeneas

by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

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The Burial of Atala

Artist: After Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French, 1767 - 1824)

Date: After 1808

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Description

Christian sentiment and interest in the Americas were at a high point in France in 1808 when Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson painted his version of Burial of Atala and captured both of these popular ideas. The Catholic Church and the French government had recently signed an agreement restoring power to the Church after the French Revolution of the previous two decades had taken it away. At the same time, Christian missionaries, colonial settlers, and explorers were sending their travel accounts back to France and most French people, who would never actually see the Americas, were fascinated by stories from this faraway place. This painting, full of Christian motifs, of the burial of a young girl mourned by her Native American beloved is based on a novella written by Franc¸ois Rene´ Chateaubriand, who had journeyed to North America in 1791.

In Chateaubriand’s fictional story set in in the 1700s in the American South (specifically the French-owned Louisiana Territory), the Christian girl Atala made a vow to her mother to remain celibate, and rather than break it for her beloved, a Native American Natchez man named Chactas, she killed herself. In Girodet’s composition, we see Atala’s corpse, sensually draped between the grieving Chactas and the priest who helped them escape a storm, Father Aubry. She is dressed in white, a color symbolizing innocence and purity in European cultures, with a crucifix clutched in her hands. Her pose and the setting in a cave reference common Christian iconography, like scenes of the Entombment and the Deposition that depict Christ after his death. Atala is depicted as saint-like, martyred for her virtue and faith. Chactas’s identity as a Native American is suggested by his comparatively dark complexion, lack of clothing, and long flowing hair, representing an imagined exotic savage in a missionary narrative about “saving” indigenous people with Christianity.

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Anne Louis Girodet De Roucy Trioson - Scene of the flood.

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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson - Venus and cupid (detail)

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The tomb of Shadowheart

I got inspired by "The Tomb of Atala," painted in 1808 by Anne Louis Girodet de Roucy Trioson. Capturing the devastating impact of loss and the enduring love that transcends death.

Bhaal's insatiable hunger for blood demands a sacrifice.

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Scene of the Flood by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, c. 1806

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Scene of the Flood (c.1806, oil on canvas) | Anne-Louis Girodet De Roucy-Trioson

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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, The Meeting of Orestes and Hermione, c. 1800

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Étude "Portrait de Duroc, Grand Maréchal du palais" de Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy Trioson.

Huile sur toile.

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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson - Pygmalion and Galatea

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Phaedre, Having Declared Her Passion, Attempts to Kill Herself with the Sword of Hippolytus, c. 1801

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

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The Entombment of Atala by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

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Orpheus and Eurydice Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (French; 1767–1824) or François-Pascal-Simon Gérard (French; 1770–1837), after the drawing by 1798 Engraving J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California