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Study for "Slave Trade"

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Description: Study for "Slave Trade"
TitleStudy for "Slave Trade"
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator roleDraftsman
Creation date1820–1824
Object typeDrawing
MaterialsBlack and red chalk on paper
Dimensions307 × 436 mm
LocationEcole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris
Accession number982
SubjectsSlave trade in artCruelty in artArtists' preparatory studiesDrawing, French--19th century
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Coda: Wounded Warrior Redux
Thomas E. Crow
Description: Emulation: David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of Revolutionary France
Emulation: David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of Revolutionary France
~The Salon of 1806 had been the scene of Girodet’s great claim to equality with David in Scene from a Deluge (pl. 167). It also...
Author
Thomas E. Crow
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1995 by Thomas Crow
Related print edition pages: pp.279-299
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00330.12
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23060&redirecttoanchor=28115
Chapter subject tags:Géricault, Théodore, 1791-1824Art criticism--France--History--19th centuryRomanticism--France--19th centuryPainting, French--19th centuryHistory painting, French--19th centuryPortrait painting, French--19th century
Chapter 6: White Slavery
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Description: Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France
Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France
“Awaiting slavery or death”: The subtitle of Delacroix’s Massacres of Chios makes the centrality of slavery to the Greek cause perfectly clear...
Author
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2002 by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Related print edition pages: pp.281-314
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00220.007
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Chapter subject tags:Delacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863History painting, French--19th centurySlavery--Greece--HistoryTurkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918Black people--Race identity--France--19th centuryPiratesBlack people in art--France--19th centuryGreece--History--War of Independence, 1821-1829Painting, French--19th century
2. Philanthropic Conquest
Hugh Honour
Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to...
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1: Slaves and Liberators
A black silhouetted against the sky has a place of key importance in Théodore Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa, one of the greatest and most enigmatic paintings of the early nineteenth century ...
Author
Hugh Honour
PublisherHarvard University Press
Copyright© 1989 by Menil Foundation, Inc.
Related print edition pages: pp.97-166
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00143.006
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Chapter subject tags:Slave trade in artSlaveryAntislavery movementsFree blacksAntislavery movements--Great BritainAntislavery movements--United States--History--19th centuryArt, French--19th centuryArt, American--19th centuryArt, British--19th century

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Creator roleDraftsman
Creation datec. 1822
Object typeDrawing
MaterialsInk and wash over graphite on paper
Dimensions335 × 249 mm
LocationHarvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/296344
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Description: The Luncheon on the Grass
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Posted by:John Carlson
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Creator nameMonet, Claude
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator roleDraughtsman
Creation datec. 1865
Object typeDrawing
MaterialsBlack chalk on blue laid paper
Dimensions31 × 47 cm
LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.93067.html
Accession number1995.47.60
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Description: Death of Sardanapalus, sketches for
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Posted by:John Carlson
May 17
Creator nameDelacroix, Eugène
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator roleDraftsman
Creation datec. 1827
Object typeDrawing
MaterialsPastel over pencil, sanguine, and white chalk on buff paper
Dimensions440 × 580 mm
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Description: Preliminary drawing for Slave Trade
Preliminary drawing for Slave Trade
Posted by:John Carlson
Sep 28
Creator nameGéricault, Théodore
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator roleDraftsman
Creation datec. 1818
Object typeDrawing
MaterialsBlack and red chalk on paper
Dimensions105 × 133 mm
LocationMusée Bonnat, Bayonne, France
Accession number2055
Preliminary drawing for Slave Trade
Preliminary drawing for Slave Trade

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