Sketch for "The Revolt at Cairo" (c. 1809): Art, History and Details

Sketch for "The Revolt at Cairo" (c. 1809) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French, 1767–1824).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Sketch for "The Revolt at Cairo"
• Date: c. 1809
• Creator attribution: Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French, 1767–1824)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on paper, mounted on paper and canvas
• Dimensions: 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.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1965.310

Collection credit

Gift of Eugene Victor Thaw

Further reading listed by the museum

• “Annual Report for 1965.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 6 (June 1966): 137–171.
• Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.
• Bellenger, Sylvain, ed. Girodet, 1767-1824. [Paris, France]: Gallimard, 2006.

View the collection record

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