Follower of Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, Deposition Atala, 1850, Oil on Canvas, Framed

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The deposition of atala

follower of anne-louis girodet de roussy-trioson (montargis, 1767 – paris, 1824)

19th-20th century

oil on canvas … Read more The deposition of atala

follower of anne-louis girodet de roussy-trioson (montargis, 1767 – paris, 1824)

19th-20th century

oil on canvas (47 x 65 cm - framed 67 x 84 cm)

this painting draws inspiration from "atala at the tomb," a key work of the french pre-romantic movement, which combines the themes of sacrifice and death in a moving scene on a single canvas by the painter anne-louis girodet de roussy-trioson.

a favorite pupil of jean-louis david, from whom he inherited a formal neoclassical style, he presented this painting, considered among his finest works, at the paris salon in 1808, and it is now exhibited at the louvre.

the subject is based on the novel by françois-rené de chateaubriand—a writer considered the founder of french literary romanticism—which recounts the unhappy and ill-fated love of chactas, a young native man, for the beautiful atala, the daughter of a spaniard and an indian woman who converted to christianity.

here, the indigenous warrior chactas weeps as he clutches the legs of his beloved, the native american woman atala, a member of a rival tribe who converted to christianity. Although the two managed to escape from their families to pursue their love, atala, bound by a vow of chastity since birth, prefers to ingest poison, which quickly leads to her death, rather than give in to the temptation of chactas' love.

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