adopted in 1806 by Dr. Benoit-François Trioson
with local drawing-master (1773); studies architecture with Etienne-Louis Boullée (1780; Paris); with Jacques-Louis David (1783); French Academy in Rome (1790-95)
1789 – wins Prix de Rome for Joseph Recognized by his Brothers (École des Beaux-Arts, Paris)
1795 – illustrates Pierre Didot’s editions of Virgil (1798) and Racine (1801)
1799 – wins Prix d’Encouragement and a state commission (never completed)
1810 – wins Prix Decennal for Deluge
Rome (1790-95)
Napoleon Bonaparte and Empress Josephine
Ossian and the French Generals, 1800 (Château de Malmaison)
Deluge, 1806 (Louvre, Paris)
Bellenger, Sylvain. ed., Girodet 1767-1824. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2005
Boime, Albert. The Art of Exclusion. Representing Blacks in the Nineteenth Century. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990
Crow, Thomas. Emulation: David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of Revolutionary France. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995
Grigsby, Darcy Grimaldo. “Black Revolution. Saint-Domingue. Girodet’s Portrait of Citizen Belley, Ex-Representative of the Colonies, 1797,” in Extremities. Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2002, pp. 9-63
MacGregor, Neil. “Girodet’s Poem Le Peintre,” Oxford Art Journal, vol. 4, no. 1 (July 1981): 26-30
Stafford, Barbara. “Endymion’s Moonbath: Art and Science in Girodet’s Early Masterpiece,” Leonardo, vol. 15, no. 2 (Summer 1982): 193-8
