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Guillaume Guillon Lethière
(10th Jan, 1760 - 22nd Apr, 1832)
Etude du groupe de Virginie, pour le tableau "La mort de Virginie"
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Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Thierry Le Mage
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
figure study
mort (personne)
drapery
époque de la République romaine (représentation)
group
on one's knees
man
despair
woman
jeunesse
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About the artwork
Title:
Etude du groupe de Virginie, pour le tableau "La mort de Virginie"
Periods:
contemporary period from 1789 until 1914
19th century
18th century
XVIIIth century
XIXth century
Techniques:
graphite
white chalk
beige paper
chalk highlights
Dimensions:
325 x 365
Inventory number:
RF52616-recto
Detail:
Vers 1795/1828. Cette feuille appartient à un ensemble de douze études pour le tableau de Lethière, La Mort de Virginie, signé et daté de 1828, présenté au Salon de 1831. Elle illustre un épisode de l'histoire romaine
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Guillaume Guillon Lethière
Also known as:
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière
Guillaume Guillon Lethiere
Born:
10th Jan, 1760
Dead:
22nd Apr, 1832
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière
(10 January 1760 – 22 April 1832) was a French neoclassical painter. Born in Guadeloupe in 1760 to a French colonial official named Pierre Guillon and a disenfranchised "mulatto" mother, Lethière has been often written about in the context of French colonial history and the French Revolution. At 14 years old, he moved from Guadeloupe to Metropolitan France, and by 17 he had become the student of Gabriel François Doyen at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture…
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