The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Collection: Recent Acquisitions




The Mourning of Pallas Anne-Louis Girodet (French, 1767–1824) Pen and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, heightened with white on cream-colored laid paper; 9 7/8 x 6 1/2 in. (25.2 x 16.4 cm) Inscribed: (lower left in graphite) Girodet inv.; (lower center in brown ink) . . .HEI MIHI! QUANTUM / PRAESIDIUM AUSONIA ET QUANTUM TU PERDIS, IULE!; (lower right in graphite) Eneide liv. XI The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1996 (1996.567)