GIRODET-TRIOSON - Lot 80

GIRODET-TRIOSON Autograph manuscript; 11 pages on 6 leaves, 23.5 x 18 cm, window-mounted in folios of heavy wove paper, plus 3 further leaves. Girodet's copy of Latin quotations and texts, plus verses by Boileau and quotations by Voltaire. Foliage 9 to 14 (recto-verso): quotations from Cicero; "ridiculous verses by Eumolpe one of the interlocutors of Petronius' Satyr to mock the poem that Nero had made about the burning of Troy"; other quotations from the Satiricon; several extracts from the Satires of Persia; 21 verses from Boileau's Satire VIII; long extracts from the Letters of Heloise; quotations from Voltaire. Verso of f. 14, pencil sketch of a woman's head. Folio 15 (15 x 17.5 cm, recto only) is a list of addresses, mainly of engravers. On folios 16 and 17 (22 x 16 cm, recto only), Girodet jotted down some addresses and accounts, and sketched some drawings, in ink or graphite. - F° 16: scene with three figures in pen (after a vase frieze?); mirror, woman's arm and decorative elements in graphite; two pen drawings: woman holding a box, figure with maid holding a fan. - F° 17: list of 3 names (including the Count of Rechberg and Louis Prince Royal of Bavaria, dated September 20, 1815); dimensions of a transfiguration; graphite sketch of a long-necked goose. IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This lot is sold by provisional auction with reunion option under number 81.