Virtue protecting innocence against the approaches of vice. Black pencil. "this drawing by girodet is to be compared with the painting that marie-guilhelmine benoist exhibited at the salon of 1791 (n°273), innocence between vice and virtue (part collection). The two compositions have the essentials in common: the attitude and gestures of the characters, the mountainous landscape background, the presence of the two temples, one round located on a summit - towards which virtue leads her protégé - the other with a pediment and colonnade (the play of gazes, the place of the temple with a pediment, the hands of the vice who calls the young girl to girodet and tries to hold her by her veil to madame benoist) however exclude a copy by girodet of the painting, especially since at the time of its exhibition in paris, the painter was staying in italy as a resident of the french academy in rome (where he remained until the fall. 1795). ". Object Type: drawing. Date: End of 1780s. Dimensions: 15.7 x 20 cm. La Vertu protégeant l’Innocence contre les approches du Vice - Girodet
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