Aurora and Cephalus
c.1810
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French, 1767–1824)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Aurora and Cephalus, c.1810. Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French, 1767–1824). Oil on canvas; framed: 34.9 x 29.9 x 7 cm (13 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 22.8 x 16.8 cm (9 x 6 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Painting and Drawing Society of The Cleveland Museum of Art 2002.101 This myth subverts typical gender dynamics: usually a man captures a woman, but in this story the trope reversed.
- Maker/Artist
- Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, Anne-Louis
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 34.9 x 29.9 x 7 cm (13 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 22.8 x 16.8 cm (9 x 6 5/8 in.)
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 2002.101
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Painting and Drawing Society of The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Exhibitions
- Girodet: Romantic Rebel, Musée du Louvre, Paris (9/19/2005 - 1/2/2006), 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" ex. cat. 128, p. 458-9.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 202 French Neoclassical Decorative Arts
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