Hermione Rejecting Orestes
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
1787–1800
- Medium
- Pen and black ink and black chalk, with stumping, and brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 26.3 × 32.3 cm (10 3/8 × 12 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkpaintchalkchalk sticksinkpen and ink drawingsgouachewashprints and drawinginorganic materialwatercolorstumpingdrawing techniquescoating (material)paper (fiber product)water-base paint
About
Girodet was one of the star pupils of Jacques Louis David. As a young man, he supported himself by making drawings as book illustrations. For the deluxe three-volume edition of the works of Jean Racine, published in 1801, Girodet provided drawings for Phaedra and Andromaque. This sheet is a preparatory work for the latter; it is the scene in which Hermione spurns Orestes after he has killed Pyrrhus at her request.
