Girodet
Phaedra, Having Declared Her Passion, Attempts to Kill Herself with the Sword of Hippolytus, from Racine's Phaedra
c. 1801
Pen and brush and brown wash and graphite, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper
The Art Institute of Chicago, Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment, 1997.303
Cat. no. 113
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Phaedra, Having Declared Her Passion, Attempts to Kill Herself with the Sword of Hippolytus, from Racine's Phaedra
c. 1801
Pen and brush and brown wash and graphite, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper
The Art Institute of Chicago, Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment, 1997.303
Cat. no. 113