The Mourning of Pallas Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson (French; 1767–1824) ca. 1790–93 Pen and brown ink, brush, and gray and brown wash, heightened with white The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Design for an illustration in Pierre Didot the Elder’s 1798 edition of the works of Virgil
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