Histories of the self : Anne-Louis Girodet and the Trioson portrait series
Abstract
Between 1797 and 1804, the French artist Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson produced a series of portraits depicting a young boy, the son of the artist’s mentor Benoît-François Trioson. The paintings chart the development of a single boy, but they also reference contemporaneous scientific and philosophical discourses that share the paintings’ preoccupation with temporality. By considering the Trioson portrait series in relation to these discourses, I argue that they compel us to think more expansively about the durational nature of selfhood and history at the end of the eighteenth-century.
Citation
O'Rourke , S 2019 , ' Histories of the self : Anne-Louis Girodet and the Trioson portrait series ' , Eighteenth-Century Studies , vol. 52 , no. 2 , pp. 201-223 . https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2019.0007
Publication
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0013-2586Type
Journal article
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© 2019 ASECS. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2019.0007
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