Museum Exhibition
Catalogue of Works
Gods and (Super)heroes: Drawing in the Age of Revolution
Art Institute of Chicago
36 documented works
Wedgwood Manufactory
Mercury Joining the Hands of Britain and France
1787–90
Stoneware (jasperware), gilded wooden frame
36 × 37.8 × 3.7 cm (14 3/16 × 14 7/8 × 1 7/16 in.); Frame: W.: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)
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Jean Baptiste Huet
Le Romain (The Roman) (Furnishing Fabric)
1811/1821
Cotton, plain weave; engraved roller printed
149.8 × 96.9 cm (59 × 38 1/8 in.); Repeat: 52.4 × 92.7 cm (20 5/8 × 36 1/2 in.)
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Pierre Paul Prud'hon
Head of Vengeance
c. 1804
Black and white chalk, with stumping, and with traces of blue chalk, on blue laid paper (faded to tan)
50.8 × 39.9 cm (20 × 15 3/4 in.)
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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Portrait of Jean-Louis Robin
c. 1810
Graphite, with stumping, on ivory wove paper
28.4 × 22.3 cm (11 3/16 × 8 13/16 in.)
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Jean Baptiste Greuze
The Paternal Blessing, or The Departure of Basile
c. 1769
Pen and brown ink, brush and black ink, gray wash and graphite, with traces of scraping, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan wove board
37.3 × 50.8 cm (14 11/16 × 20 in.)
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Pierre Paul Prud'hon
Head of a Woman
1800/10
Black chalk, with stumping, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
36.2 × 28.5 cm (14 5/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Three Men Carrying a Wounded Soldier, from the Images of Spain, Album F
1812/20
Brush with brown ink and brown and gray wash over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper
20.2 × 14.1 cm (8 × 5 9/16 in.)
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Louis-Léopold Boilly
The Arcades at the Palais-Royal
c. 1804
Pen and black ink, and brush and gray wash, with gray gouache, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
36.5 × 45.7 cm (14 3/8 × 18 in.)
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Bartolomeo Pinelli
Telemachus, Believing that His Father, Ulysses, Is Dead, Searches for Him in the Underworld, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 18
1808
Pen and black ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, over traces of black chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on board
Sight: 48 × 59 cm (18 15/16 × 23 1/4 in.); Overall: 55.6 × 66.7 cm (21 15/16 × 26 5/16 in.)
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Bartolomeo Pinelli
Venus Presents Cupid to Calypso, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 7
1808
Pen and black ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on board
55.9 × 66.8 cm (22 1/16 × 26 5/16 in.)
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Bartolomeo Pinelli
Telemachus Relates His Adventures to the Goddess Calypso, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 1
1808
Pen and black ink with brush and gray and brown wash, with traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on board
Sight: 45.5 × 57.5 cm (17 15/16 × 22 11/16 in.); Overall: 55.9 × 66.8 cm (22 1/16 × 26 5/16 in.)
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Bartolomeo Pinelli
Telemachus Battles the Lion, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 2
1808
Pen and black ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, over traces of black chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on board
Sight: 47 × 59 cm (18 9/16 × 23 1/4 in.); Overall: 55.9 × 66.8 cm (22 1/16 × 26 5/16 in.)
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Bartolomeo Pinelli
Calypso Watches Telemachus with Cupid on His Knee, While Mentor Watches in Anger, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 7
1808
Pen and black ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, over traces of black chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on board
Sight: 47.2 × 59 cm (18 5/8 × 23 1/4 in.); Overall: 55.8 × 66.7 cm (22 × 26 5/16 in.)
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Bartolomeo Pinelli
Telemachus is Consoled by Termosiris, Priest of Apollo, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 2
1808
Pen and black ink, with brush and gray and brown wash, over black chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on board
47.6 × 59 cm (18 3/4 × 23 1/4 in.)
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Bartolomeo Pinelli
Telemachus and Mentor in a Galley after Fleeing the Island of Calypso, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 8
1808
Pen and black ink, with brush and gray and brown wash, over black chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on board
46.4 × 59.1 cm (18 5/16 × 23 5/16 in.)
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Bartolomeo Pinelli
The Dream of Telemachus, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 4
1808
Pen and black ink, with brush and gray and brown wash, over black chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on board
45.8 × 57.9 cm (18 1/16 × 22 13/16 in.)
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Bartolomeo Pinelli
Telemachus Plays and Sings to the Shepherds in Egypt, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 2
1808
Pen and black ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, over traces of black chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on board
Sight: 46 × 58.8 cm (18 1/8 × 23 3/16 in.); Overall: 55.8 × 66.7 cm (22 × 26 5/16 in.)
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Bartolomeo Pinelli
Cupid Advises Calypso to Set Fire to Mentor’s Ship, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 7
1808
Pen and black ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, over traces of black chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on board
Sight: 45.6 × 58 cm (18 × 22 7/8 in.); Overall: 55.8 × 66.5 cm (22 × 26 3/16 in.)
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Bartolomeo Pinelli
Mentor and Telemachus, Having Survived the Storm, Are Spirited to the Island of Calypso on a Mast, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 6
1808
Pen and black ink, with brush and gray and brown wash, over traces of black chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on board
Sight: 46.5 × 59.1 cm (18 5/16 × 23 5/16 in.); Overall: 55.8 × 66.5 cm (22 × 26 3/16 in.)
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Bartolomeo Pinelli
Telemachus Describes How He Was Admitted into the Assembly in Crete, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 5
1808
Pen and black ink, with brush and dark gray and brown wash, over traces of black chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on board
Sight: 47 × 58.9 cm (18 9/16 × 23 1/4 in.); Overall: 55.8 × 66.5 cm (22 × 26 3/16 in.)
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Studio of François Boucher
Study after Apollo Revealing his Divinity before the Shepherdess Isse
c. 1750
Black chalk, with stumping and red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
32.1 × 45 cm (12 11/16 × 17 3/4 in.)
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Jacques Louis David
Portrait of Jeanbon Saint-André
1795
Pen and black ink and brush and black ink with yellow ocher watercolor over graphite, on cream laid paper
18.3 × 18.3 cm (7 1/4 × 7 1/4 in.)
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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Jean-Baptiste Belley
c. 1797
Black chalk, with stumping, and traces of pen and black ink, heightened with touches of opaque white, on ivory wove paper
36.9 × 30.3 cm (14 9/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
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Jacques Louis David
The Departure of Marcus Attilius Regulus for Carthage
1785/86
Pen and black ink and brush and black ink wash and opaque white watercolor with black chalk and touches of brown watercolor on blue laid paper
Sight: 31 × 40.9 cm (12 1/4 × 16 1/8 in.)
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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Hermione Rejecting Orestes
c. 1799
Pen and black ink and black chalk, with stumping, and brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on ivory laid paper
26.3 × 32.3 cm (10 3/8 × 12 3/4 in.)
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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Bayard Refusing the Presents of His Hostess, in Brescia
c. 1789
Black and brown chalk, with stumping, and pen and brown ink, heightened with white goauche, on off-white laid paper
36.4 × 51.3 cm (14 3/8 × 20 1/4 in.)
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Felice Giani
Angelica Resting Under a Tree, from Orlando Furioso
1810/13
Pen and brown ink, and brush and brown and gray wash, over graphite, on ivory wove paper
34.7 × 51.5 cm (13 11/16 × 20 5/16 in.)
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Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
Turkish Cavalier in Combat
c. 1818
Brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache over black chalk, with blue wash on brown laid paper
28 × 22 cm (11 1/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Phaedre, Having Declared Her Passion, Attempts to Kill Herself with the Sword of Hippolytus
c. 1801
Pen and brush and black and brown wash and graphite, heightened with white gouache on cream laid paper
34.5 × 24.2 cm (13 5/8 × 9 9/16 in.)
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Tommaso Piroli
Homer's Iliad, Homer's Odyssey, Aeschylus's Tragedies and les Argonautes
1793/1810 (Iliad, 2nd ed, published 1793; Odyssey, published 1793; Tragedies, published 1795; Les argonautes, 1799; 3rd ed, published 1807/10)
Engravings in black on cream laid paper, bound with cardboard covers covered in paper, with leather spine and corners, and decorative end papers with block printing in blue
Book binding: 29.6 × 43.7 × 4 cm (11 11/16 × 17 1/4 × 1 5/8 in.)
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Jean Michel Moreau
Creusa Pleads with Aeneas as He Leaves for War
1803
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on cream wove paper
Image: 22.6 × 15.5 cm (8 15/16 × 6 1/8 in.); Sheet: 32.2 × 23.1 cm (12 11/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Fingal Mourning Over the Body of Malvina, from Ossian's Berrathon
c. 1810
Black chalk with brush and black ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, on ivory laid paper prepared with a gray wash
18.4 × 25.7 cm (7 1/4 × 10 1/8 in.)
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Giuseppe Cades
Birth of the Virgin
c. 1784
Pen and brown ink with pen and brown wash, over traces of graphite, heightened with white gouache (discolored), on ivory laid paper
42 × 56 cm (16 9/16 × 22 1/16 in.)
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François Marius Granet
Monks on the Staircase of the Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli
c. 1826
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with touches of watercolor, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, perimeter mounted on cream wove paper
Primary support: 19.3 × 15.7 cm (7 5/8 × 6 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 24.6 × 19.2 cm (9 11/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
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Pierre Paul Prud'hon
The Triumph of Bonaparte
1801
Black chalk with stumping, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory Japanese paper
35 × 63 cm (13 13/16 × 24 13/16 in.)
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Etienne Barthélemy Garnier
Brutus Exhorting the Romans after the Death of Lucretia
c. 1790
Brush and brown and black ink washes, over pen and black ink and traces of black chalk, with opaque white paint, on cut and pieced cream laid paper
Sight: 53.2 × 77.4 cm (21 × 30 1/2 in.)
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