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Les Présages de pluie

Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson
1767-1824

Les Présages de pluie

10 5/8 x 14 13/16 inches (270 x 376 mm)
Black chalk on paper.
1985.12

Purchased as the gift of Catherine Mellon Conover and Elizabeth de Cuevas.

Notes
Watermark: none.
This is a preparatory study for one of the four illustrations to the "Georgics" of Virgil, published in "Compositions tirées des Géorgiques lithographiées par ses élèves et publiées par Mr. Pannetier", 1827.
Associated names
Conover, Catherine Mellon, donor.
Strong-Cuevas, Elizabeth, donor.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 344.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department