Phaedre, Having Declared Her Passion, Attempts to Kill Herself with the Sword of Hippolytus

Prints and Drawings

c. 1801

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson
French, 1767-1824

This drawing of a scene from the tragedy Phaedra was for a deluxe edition of the plays of the French dramatist Jean Racine (1639–1699) illustrated by Jacques-Louis David’s pupil Girodet. The moment depicted is Phaedra’s attempted suicide after her stepson, Hippolytus, rejects her amorous advances. About his drawings for the plays of Racine, Girodet wrote: “It is wrong that drawings are seen as mere drawings; they demand the same conception and almost as much study as a painting.”

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Artist: Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Title: Phaedre, Having Declared Her Passion, Attempts to Kill Herself with the Sword of Hippolytus
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1796–1806
Medium: Pen and brush and black and brown wash and graphite, heightened with white gouache on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 34.5 × 24.2 cm (13 5/8 × 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment
Reference Number: 1997.303
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