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Sketch for "The Revolt at Cairo"

Sketch for "The Revolt at Cairo"

c. 1809
(French, 1767–1824)
France, 19th century
oil on paper, mounted on paper and canvas
Framed: 25 x 33 x 6.5 cm (9 13/16 x 13 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 15.2 x 23.3 cm (6 x 9 3/16 in.)
Gift of Eugene Victor Thaw 1965.310
Location: not on view

Description

Throughout the 1800s and into the 1900s, prints, paintings, and photographs, like Louis Haghe’s Egypt and Nubia series, brought back by artists who voyaged to Egypt, inspired American and European artists, architects, and designers to emulate ancient Egyptian motifs and styles. Egyptomania blossomed through the 1800s and can be seen in architecture around cities like Washington, DC, and in the interiors of aristocratic homes, as well as in funerary monuments, such as in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. Looking back at these creations provides an interesting historical groundwork for debating who has the right to interpret Egyptian motifs and styles.
  • Paris sale, Drouot, collection Coutan-Hauguet, 16-17 December 1889 (lot 16), "Géricault [annotation gives: Girodet]: Révolte du Caire, 21 Octobre 1798, première pensée: esquisse," 15 x 24 cm, for ff 309 to Guillon [annotated]. Eugene Victor Thaw, New York. Given to the CMA in 1965.
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  • Egyptomania: Fashion's Conflicted Obsession. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 1, 2023-January 28, 2024).
    Art Institute of Chicago, IL (2/11/2006 - 4/30/2006), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC (5/22/2006 - 8/27/2006) and the Musée des Beaux Arts, Montréal (10/12/2006 - 1/21/2007): "Girodet: Romantic Rebel" (Paris: Musée du Louvre Êdition ©2005), ex. cat. 56, p. 317.
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    Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum; Kunsthaus Zürich; Lyons, Musée des Beaux-Arts. Triumph und Tod des Helden: Europäische Historienmalerei von Rubens bis Manet (1987-88), no. 134 (repr.).
    Providence, Bell Gallery, Brown University. All the Banners Wave: Art and War in the Romantic Era 1792-1851 (1982), no. 11b (repr.).
    Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (N.Y.); Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase. Orientalism: The Near East in French Painting, 1800-1880 (1982), no. 45, fig. 14.
    Kunsthalle Hamburg. Goya: Das Zeitalter der Revolutionen 1789-1830 (1981), 534, no. 393, pl. xx.
    Goya: das Zeitalter der Revolutionen, 1789-1830 (Goya: The Age of Revolutions, 1789-1830). Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany (organizer) (October 16, 1980-January 4, 1981).
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    Year in Review: 1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965).
    cma; Brooklyn Museum; Saint Louis Art Museum; Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum. The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900 (1980-82), 72-73 (repr.). Text by Gabriel P. Weisberg.
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