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Phaedre, Having Declared Her Passion, Attempts to Kill Herself with the Sword of Hippolytus
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson
- Date
- c. 1801
- Medium
- Pen and brush and black and brown wash and graphite, heightened with white gouache on cream laid paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
This drawing of a scene from the tragedy Phaedra was for a deluxe edition of the plays of the French dramatist Jean Racine (1639–1699) illustrated by Jacques-Louis David’s pupil Girodet. The moment depicted is Phaedra’s attempted suicide after her stepson, Hippolytus, rejects her amorous advances. About his drawings for the plays of Racine, Girodet wrote: “It is wrong that drawings are seen as mere drawings; they demand the same conception and almost as much study as a painting.”
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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