Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2011–June 2012
The Tempest, Neptune Commanding the Winds to Retreat, Venus Parting from Aeneas
about 1820-24
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Sheet: 21.2 x 20 cm (8 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
Black chalk on greenish paper
Classification: Drawings
Accession number: 2012.22
Provenance/Ownership History: 1825, Artist's studio sale (on behalf of Denis Becquerel Despéaux and Rosine née Girodet) sold to Antoine-Claude Pannetier (1772-1859), Paris. By 2010, E. Chambon, Geneva; 2010, Chambon sold at Fischer Auktionen, Lucerne (June 21, 2010, lot 1360). By 2011, Emmanuel von Baeyer, London. 2012, sold by von Baeyer to the MFA. (Accession date: January 25, 2012)
Museum purchase with funds donated by Davis and Carol Noble and from the Abbott Lawrence Fund, Benjamin Pierce Cheney Donation, Alice M. Bartlett Fund, John Wheelock Elliot and John Morse Elliot Fund, Edwin E. Jack Fund, and Arthur Mason Knapp Fund