Sketch for "The Revolt at Cairo"

Description

Throughout the 1800s and into the 1900s, prints, paintings, and photographs, like Louis Haghe’s Egypt and Nubia series, brought back by artists who voyaged to Egypt, inspired American and European artists, architects, and designers to emulate ancient Egyptian motifs and styles. Egyptomania blossomed through the 1800s and can be seen in architecture around cities like Washington, DC, and in the interiors of aristocratic homes, as well as in funerary monuments, such as in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. Looking back at these creations provides an interesting historical groundwork for debating who has the right to interpret Egyptian motifs and styles.

Provenance

Paris sale, Drouot, collection Coutan-Hauguet, 16-17 December 1889 (lot 16), "Géricault [annotation gives: Girodet]: Révolte du Caire, 21 Octobre 1798, première pensée: esquisse," 15 x 24 cm, for ff 309 to Guillon [annotated]. Eugene Victor Thaw, New York. Given to the CMA in 1965.

Sketch for "The Revolt at Cairo"

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

c. 1809

Accession Number

1965.310

Medium

oil on paper, mounted on paper and canvas

Dimensions

Framed: 25 x 33 x 6.5 cm (9 13/16 x 13 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 15.2 x 23.3 cm (6 x 9 3/16 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Eugene Victor Thaw