Description
Aubry-Lecomte, a student of Girodet, used the new art of lithography to reproduce the heightened facial expressions then prevalent in Romantic history painting. This evocative lithograph, shown at the Salon of 1822, is based on Girodet’s 1802 painting Ossian Receiving Napoleonic Officers (in the collection of Chateau du Malmaison). Galvina, shown at the left, is a tragic character from the fabricated epic poetry of the fictional Scottish bard Ossian, highly popular in the 18th century.
Accession Number
103895
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 40.6 × 30.5 cm (16 × 12 1/16 in.); Sheet: 50.2 × 39.5 cm (19 13/16 × 15 9/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Credit Line
Joseph T. Ryerson Fund
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