Detail View: The AMICA Library: Academic Study of a Male Head
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AMICA ID:
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MIA_.86.39
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AMICA Library Year:
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1998
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Object Type:
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Drawings and Watercolors
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Creator Name:
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Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, Anne-Louis
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Creator Nationality:
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European; French
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1767 - 1824
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson
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Title:
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Academic Study of a Male Head
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View:
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Front
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Creation Date:
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1817
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Creation Start Date:
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1817
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Creation End Date:
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1817
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Materials and Techniques:
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charcoal, white and black chalk, stumping, on tan laid paper
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Dimensions:
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H.7-5/8 x W.7-1/4 in.
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Component Measured:
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overall
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Measurement Unit:
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in
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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Owner Location:
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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ID Number:
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86.39
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Funds from an Anonymous Donor, the Print and Drawing Council and the Fiduciary Fund
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Inscriptions:
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SIGNATURE; DATE; INSCRIPTION; MARKS
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Rights:
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Context:
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A pupil of Jacques-Louis David, Girodet received rigorous neoclassical, artistic instruction at the Royal Academy. However, during the reign of Napoleon, he achieved fame as a painter of pre-Romantic battle scenes and apotheoses of the Imperial army. The present study of a head reflects the artist's Romantic sensibilities. Although Napoleon was in exile when Girodet executed this drawing in 1817, the model sports a type of Gallic mustache that was popular with the Emperor's corps of body guards; he is not a typical studio model. Girodet was highly influenced by the treatise Physiognomical Fragments (1775-78) by Johann Kasper Lavater, who claimed that the human face is a mirror of a psycho-spiritual reality. The dramatic, three-quarter profile perspective, which emphasizes the cyclopean eye, heightens the Romantic impact of this head of a fierce and defiant soul. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MIA_.2755c.tif
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