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An Allegory of Lyric Poetry

1811
Not on view
Marie Gabrielle Capet was a devoted student of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, whose full-length self-portrait with two students (53.225.5) hangs in the European Paintings galleries. In this delicate black and white chalk drawing she copies an over-door painting of her teacher’s husband, François André Vincent, today in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich (inv. 1300). The subject is an allegory of lyric poetry, poetry meant to be sung with musical accompaniment.

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Object Information
  • Title: An Allegory of Lyric Poetry
  • Artist: Marie Gabrielle Capet (French, Lyons 1761–1818 Paris)
  • Artist: After François André Vincent (French, Paris 1746–1816 Paris)
  • Date: 1811
  • Medium: Black chalk and stumping, heightened with white chalk; squared in black chalk
  • Dimensions: 8 1/4 × 13 1/4 in. (21 × 33.7 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Stephen A. Geiger Gift, 2022
  • Object Number: 2022.19
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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