
Jean-Baptiste Belley
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson · c. 1797
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by Georges Bernier (1911-2001), New York, to the Art Institute, 1973.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 126-27, cat. 62 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, p. 75, cat. 69 (ill.).
- Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 30 (ill.).
- Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 64-65, cat. 28 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "European Portraits 1600-1900 in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 8-September 11, 1978, cat. 28.
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Consulat, Empire, Restoration," April 21-May 28, 1982.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Canova and France," January 15-January 20, 1985.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 110-11, cat. 47 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
- New York, Museo del Barrio, "Caribbean: Crossroads of the World", June 12 - October 21, 2012.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gods and (Super)heroes: Drawing in an Age of Revolution", November 16, 2017 - April 1, 2018.
- Paris, Musée d'Orsay, "The Black Model", March 25 - July 21, 2019, p. 51 (ill.).
- Williamstown, MA, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, "Guillaume Lethiere and his Worlds", June 15 - October 14, 2024, traveled to Paris, Musée du Louvre, November 14, 2024 - February 17, 2025.
Literature
Published references
- "Recent Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," The Art Quarterly, 36 (1973), pp. 430 and 440 (ill.).
- Harold Joachim, "Two French Portraits from the End of the Eighteenth Century," Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago, 67 (November/December 1973), pp. 3-5 (ill.).
- Harold Joachim, “Trois siècles de portraits dessinés à l’Art Institute de Chicago,” L’Oeil, 255 (October 1976), p. 2, no. 1 (ill.).
- Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), p. 28, no. 1E5.
- Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Extremities in Paint: Embodying Empire in Post-Revolutionary France (New Haven, 2001).
- Susan H. Libby, A Man of Nature, Rescued by the Wisdom and Principles of the French Nation: Science and Politics in Girodet's Portrait of Belley, in Performing the Everday: The Culture of Genre in the Eighteenth Century, Rollins College.
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