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Guadeloupe: Origins

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
Paris 1703–1772 Versailles, France
Map of the Islands of Guadeloupe, Marie Galante, and Les Saintes 
1759
Engraving with pink watercolor
23 1⁄4 × 34 1⁄2 in. (59 × 87.5 cm)
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, département des Cartes et plans, GE SH 18 PF 155 DIV 2 P 12/2

Attributed to Jules Joseph Honoré Coussin
Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe 1773-1836
A Hunter in the Marigot Cliffs, Guadeloupe
c. 1805
Gouache
15 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (39.5 x 52 cm)
Clark Art Institute, 2024.1

Victor Levasseur
Caen, France 1800–1870 Paris
French Colonies (in America)
from Atlas National Illustré des 86 départements et des possessions de la France. (Illustrated National Atlas of France’s 86 departments and possessions)
Paris: A. Combette, 1845
Engraving with pink and yellow watercolor, pen and orange, green, red, and blue ink
11 × 16 3⁄4 in. (28 × 42.5 cm)
Private collection


Early Formation

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Académie
1776
Red chalk, graphite, heightened with white
23 5⁄8 × 18 1⁄8 in. (60 × 46 cm)
Bibliothèque municipale, Rouen, France, Collection Hédou, 14748

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Académie
1780
Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white
22 3⁄4 × 15 3⁄4 in. (58 × 40 cm)
Beaux-Arts de Paris, EBA 3021

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Académie
1782
Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white
23 7⁄8 × 18 1⁄4 in. (60.6 × 46.5 cm)
Beaux-Arts de Paris, EBA 3022

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Condemned Metellus Spared by Augustus
c. early 1780s
Pen and brown and gray ink, brush and gray wash, black chalk
18 × 24 5⁄8 in. (45.7 × 62.6 cm)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
General Acquisition Fund, AC1992.30.1

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Woman of Canaan at the Feet of Jesus Christ
1784
Oil on canvas
57 3⁄4 × 44 7⁄8 in. (146.5 × 114 cm)
Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Angers, France, 2013.22.11

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Death of Camilla 
1785
Oil on canvas
46 1⁄8 × 58 1⁄2 in. (117.2 × 148.4 cm)
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Mary B. Jackson Fund, 72.144

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Torso or Half-Length Figure
1785
Oil on canvas
39 3⁄8 × 31 7⁄8 in. (100 × 81 cm)
Beaux-Arts de Paris, MU 4527


Revolutionary Politics and Rome

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Brutus Condemning His Sons to Death
c. 1788
Brush and brown and gray wash, black chalk, graphite
14 × 24 1⁄2 in. (35.6 × 62.2 cm)
Clark Art Institute, 2018.1.2

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Brutus Condemning His Sons to Death
1788
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white
21 3⁄4 × 38 3⁄4 in. (55.1 × 98.5 cm)
Musée d’art et d’histoire Pissarro-Pontoise, France, D 1975.1.9

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Brutus Condemning His Sons to Death
1788
Oil on canvas
23 3⁄8 × 39 in. (59.4 × 99.1 cm)
Clark Art Institute, 2018.1.1

Pierre Charles Coqueret
Paris 1761–1832 Paris
after Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Brutus Condemning His Sons to Death
1794
Stipple engraving
22 1⁄2 × 38 3⁄4 in. (57.2 × 98.4 cm)
Clark Art Institute, 2018.1.3

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Death of Virginia
1795
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white
21 1⁄4 × 38 1⁄2 in. (54 × 98 cm)
Musée d’art et d’histoire Pissarro-Pontoise, France, 1975.1.10

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Death of Virginia
c. 1795
Oil on canvas
19 1⁄2 × 30 in. (49.5 × 76.2 cm)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Ciechanowiecki Collection, gift of the Ahmanson Foundation, M.2000.179.35

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Compositional Study for Death of Virginia
c. 1795
Graphite, pen and black and red ink, brush and gray wash
13 1⁄8 × 22 3⁄4 in. (33.3 × 57.7 cm)
Musée du Louvre, Paris, RF 52609, recto

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Death of Caesar 
Before 1795
Oil on canvas
19 1⁄2 × 28 3⁄8 in. (49.5 × 72 cm)
Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France, 2017.25.1

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Critias and Theramenes
1789
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, black chalk, heightened with white
25 3⁄4 × 39 3⁄4 in. (65.2 × 101 cm)
Collection of Véronique and Louis-Antoine Prat, Paris

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Portrait of a Composer
1791
Oil on canvas
49 5⁄8 × 36 3⁄8 in. (126 × 92.5 cm)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Saint-François, Guadeloupe

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Liberty and Equality United by Nature
1793
Black chalk
18 1⁄4 × 14 5⁄8 in. (46.5 × 37.3 cm)
Musée de la Révolution française, Domaine de Vizille–Département de l’Isère, France, 2016.2

J.-Louis Darcis
c. 1760–1801 Paris
after Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Junius Brutus
1795
Stipple engraving
9–91⁄4 in. (23–23.5 cm)
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, département des Estampes et de la photographie,
N-3 (BRUTUS, Lucius Junius), MFILM D-099848

J.-Louis Darcis
c. 1760–1801 Paris
after Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
William Tell
1795
Stipple engraving
9–91⁄4 in. (23–23.5 cm)
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, département des Estampes et de la photographie,
N-2 (TELL, Guillaume), MFILM D-268673

J.-Louis Darcis
c. 1760–1801 Paris
after Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1795
Stipple engraving
9–91⁄4 in. (23–23.5 cm)
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, département des Estampes et de la photographie,
N-2 (ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques), MFILM D-252146

J.-Louis Darcis
c. 1760–1801 Paris
after Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Benjamin Franklin
1795
Stipple engraving
9–91⁄4 in. (23–23.5 cm)
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, département des Estampes et de la photographie,
N-2 (FRANKLIN, Benjamin), MFILM D-145545

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Jean-Germain Drouais
Paris 1763–1788 Rome, and others
Landscape Album
Early nineteenth-century drawings, album assembled c. 1828–30 by Mélanie d’Hervilly (Brussels 1800–1878 Paris)
114 paper leaves with 4 counterproofs and 92 drawings in pen and brown and black ink, graphite,
black chalk, white chalk, charcoal, brush and brown and black wash
16 1⁄8 × 10 1⁄4 × 2 3⁄8 in. (41 × 26 × 6.7 cm)
Clark Art Institute, 2019.2.1-71


Return to Paris

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Frieze Representing the Neuf Thermidor (July 27, 1794)
1795
Pen and black and brown ink, brush and black and brown wash, graphite
15 3⁄4 × 35 1⁄4 (40 × 89.5 cm)
MAH Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva. Deposit of the Société des Arts de Genève, 1981, let. 001

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Erminia and the Shepherds
1795
Oil on canvas
32 × 39 1⁄2 in. (81.3 × 100.3 cm)
Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts
Collection, Mrs. John B. O’Hara Fund, 2013.1.FA

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Classical Subject, an Assembly Gathered around a Tomb
1796
Point of brush and black and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, green chalk, white opaque
watercolor, black chalk, graphite
18 1⁄4 × 23 1⁄2 in. (46.6 × 59.7 cm)
Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978, 1994.7

Jacques Marchand
1769–1849
after Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Portrait of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
1797–98
Stipple engraving
19 7⁄8 × 14 1⁄2 in. (50.5 × 37 cm)
Daguillard Collection

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
The Homeland Is in Danger
c. 1799
Oil on canvas
23 1⁄4 × 39 3⁄8 in. (59 × 100 cm)
Musée de la Révolution française, Domaine de Vizille–Département de l’Isère, France
Acquired with support from the French state and the Rhône-Alpes region, MRF 1985-14

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Woman Leaning on a Portfolio
c. 1799
Oil on canvas
25 × 22 1⁄4 in. (63.5 × 56.4 cm)
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Museum purchase, 1954.21

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Portrait of Adèle Papin Playing the Harp
c. 1799
Oil on canvas
70 1⁄2 × 57 7⁄8 in. (179 × 147 cm)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Heinz Family Fund, 2023.17

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Victory and the Genius of the Arts
c. 1800
Red chalk
18 7⁄8 × 27 1⁄2 in. (48 × 70 cm)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper, France, 873-2-98

Louis-Léopold Boilly
La Bassée, France 1761–1845 Paris
Meeting of Artists in Isabey’s Studio
1798
Oil on canvas
28 1⁄8 × 43 3⁄4 in. (72 × 111 cm)
Musée du Louvre, Paris, RF 1290 bis

Louis-Léopold Boilly
La Bassée, France 1761–1845 Paris
Guillaume Lethière and Carle Vernet
c. 1798
Oil on paper, mounted on canvas
17 × 14 1⁄2 in. (43 × 37 cm)
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, France, P 387

Alexandre Clément
1775–1808
after Louis-Léopold Boilly
La Bassée, France 1761–1845 Paris
Reunion of Artists 
1804
Stipple engraving
23 1⁄4 × 17 5⁄8 in. (59.2 × 44.8 cm)
Clark Art Institute
Anonymous gift in honor of Étienne Bréton, 2021.9a

Artist unknown
after Alexandre Clément
1775–1808
Reunion of Artists 
c. 1804
Engraving and etching
23 1⁄4 × 17 1⁄4 in. (59.1 × 43.7 cm)
Clark Art Institute
Anonymous gift in honor of Étienne Bréton, 2021.9b


Lethière and the Bonapartes

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Study for Preliminaries of Peace Signed at Leoben, April 17, 1797
c. 1805
Oil on canvas
15 × 18 1⁄8 in. (38.5 × 46 cm)
Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, France, MV 6938

Manufacture des Gobelins
after Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Woven by Harland, Sollier l’aîné, Marie l’aîné, Abel-Nicolas Sollier, Renaud, Harland fils, Alexandre Duruy, Lemoine, Flament
Preliminaries of Peace Signed at Leoben, April 17, 1797
Weaving commenced in November 1810, interrupted at the end of 1812, resumed in 1813, and suspended in April 1814
Wool and silk, 10 warps per cm
130 × 76 3⁄4 in. (330 × 195 cm)
Mobilier national, Paris, GMTT-251-000

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Lucien Bonaparte Contemplating Alexandrine de Bleschamp Jouberthon
1802
Oil on canvas
41 5⁄8 × 53 1⁄2 in. (105.7 × 135.9 cm)
Collection of Lowell Libson and Jonny Yarker Ltd., London

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Elisa Bonaparte-Bacciocchi, Princess of Lucca and Piombino
1806
Oil on canvas
85 5⁄8 × 55 in. (217.5 × 139.5 cm)
Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, France, MV 4710

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Joséphine, Empress of the French
1807
Oil on canvas
88 1⁄2 × 58 3⁄4 in. (225 × 149 cm)
Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, France, MV 4700


Caribbean Circles

Anne-Louis Girodet
Montargis, France 1767–1824 Paris
Benjamin Rolland
1816
Oil on panel
25 1⁄4 × 20 7⁄8 in. (64 × 53 cm)
Musée de Grenoble, France, MG 156

Benjamin Rolland
Saint-François, Guadeloupe 1773–1855 Grenoble, France
Young Woman Entering the Bath
1805
Oil on canvas
59 1⁄2 × 36 5⁄8 in. (151 × 93 cm)
Musée de Grenoble, France, MG 3690 bis

Théodore Chassériau
El Limón, Dominican Republic 1819–1856 Paris
Self-Portrait
1835
Oil on canvas
39 × 32 1⁄4 in. (99 × 82 cm)
Musée du Louvre, Paris, RF 3788

Théodore Chassériau
El Limón, Dominican Republic 1819–1856 Paris
Study of the Model Joseph
1838
Oil on canvas
21 5⁄8 × 29 in. (55 × 73.5 cm)
Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban, France, MI 867.180

Alexandre-Auguste Robineau
Paris 1747–1828 Paris
Chevalier de Saint-George
1787
Oil on canvas
24 1⁄2 × 20 1⁄4 in. (62 × 51.2 cm)
Royal Collection, HM King Charles III, United Kingdom, RCIN 404358

Attributed to Antoine Claude Pannetier
Paris 1772–1859 Paris
after Anne-Louis Girodet
Montargis, France 1767–1824 Paris
Jean-Baptiste Belley
c. 1797
Black chalk with stumping, traces of pen and black ink, heightened with white
14 1⁄2 × 12 in. (36.9 × 30.3 cm)
Art Institute of Chicago
Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation, 1973.156

Andrea Appiani, the elder
Milan 1754–1817 Milan
Joséphine Bonaparte Crowning a Myrtle Tree
1796
Oil on canvas
38 5⁄8 × 29 in. (98 × 73.5 cm)
Courtesy of Robilant + Voena

Andrea Appiani, the elder
Milan 1754–1817 Milan
Madame Hamelin, née Fortunée Lormier-Lagrave
1798
Oil on canvas
27 1⁄2 × 21 5⁄8 in. (70 × 55 cm)
Musée Carnavalet–Histoire de Paris, P1685

Louis Gauffier
Poitiers, France 1762–1801 Livorno, Italy
General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas in Hunting Costume
1801
Oil on canvas
30 3⁄8 × 23 in. (77.2 × 58.4 cm)
Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bayonne, France, CM 539

Achille Devéria
Paris 1800–1857 Paris
Alexandre Dumas
1829
Lithograph
15 × 12 in. (38.1 × 30.5 cm)
Daguillard Collection

David d’Angers
Angers, France 1788–1856 Paris
Alexandre Dumas
1829
Bronze
5 in. (12.5 cm)
Clark Art Institute
Gift of Olivier Meslay and Laure de Margerie, 2023.9

Jacques-Auguste Fauginet
Paris 1809–1847 Saint-Maurice, France
Alexandre Dumas
1831
Patinated plaster
24 3⁄4 × 14 3⁄8 × 9 1⁄4 in. (63 × 36.4 × 23.5 cm)
Musée du Louvre, Paris, RFML.SC.2023.6.1

Pierre François Eugène Giraud
Paris 1806–1881 Paris
Alexandre Dumas
1842
Pastel
24 1⁄2 × 23 1⁄8 in. (62.2 × 58.7 cm)
Daguillard Collection

Jenny Prinssay
Goyave, Guadeloupe 1771–before 1836
View of Guadeloupe
c. 1813
Oil on canvas
13 × 17 in. (33 × 43.4 cm)
Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, France
On deposit at Musée du Nouveau Monde, La Rochelle, France, MNM.D.1980.1.2

Jenny Prinssay
Goyave, Guadeloupe 1771–before 1836
View of Martinique
c. 1813
Oil on canvas
11 × 15 3⁄4 in. (28 × 40 cm)
Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, France; on deposit at Musée du Nouveau Monde, La Rochelle, France, MNM.D.1980.1.1

Jenny Prinssay
Goyave, Guadeloupe 1771–before 1836
View of a Bay on the Island of Martinique
1814
Oil on canvas
25 1⁄4 × 34 1⁄4 in. (64.1 × 86.9 cm)
Private collection

Évremond de Bérard
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1824–1881 Paris
Bay of Pointe-à-Pitre and Petit Cul-de-Sac Marin
c. 1852–57
Oil on canvas
23 5⁄8 × 47 1⁄4 in. (60 × 120 cm)
Musée départemental d’Art et d’Histoire (MUSARTH), Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, 2010.1.1


Lethière’s Directorship at the Académie de France in Rome

Louis-Léopold Boilly
La Bassée, France 1761–1845 Paris
Charles Percier, Pierre Fontaine, and Claude-Louis Bernier
c. 1807
Black and white chalk
5 3⁄4 × 13 in. (14.8 × 33.2 cm)
Clark Art Institute
Gift of David Jenness in honor of Arthur F. Jenness (Professor at Williams College, 1946–63), 2005.10.3

Antonio Testa
active 1800–1825
after Charles Percier
Paris 1764–1838 Paris
and Louis-Léopold Boilly La Bassée, France 1761–1845 Paris
Pledge of Friendship, Given to Lethière upon Departing for Rome, July 2, 1807
1807
Bound volume with title page, frontispiece, and twelve portrait plates in etching and engraving
14 3⁄8 × 9 7⁄8 × 1⁄2 in. (36.5 × 25 × 1.2 cm)
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, département des Estampes et de la photographie, NB-21- PET FOL

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Montauban, France 1780–1867 Paris
Guillaume Lethière
1815
Graphite
11 × 9 3⁄4 in. (28 × 23.1 cm)
Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Bequest of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus, 1977.56

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Montauban, France 1780–1867 Paris
Madame Guillaume Lethière, née Marie-Joseph-Honorée Vanzenne, and Her Son Lucien Lethière
1808
Graphite
9 1⁄2 × 7 3⁄8 in. (24.1 × 18.7 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
H.O. Havemeyer Collection, bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929, 29.100.191

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Montauban, France 1780–1867 Paris
Alexandre Lethière Family
1815
Graphite
10 3⁄4 × 8 1⁄2 in. (27.5 × 21.8 cm)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund, 26.45

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Montauban, France 1780–1867 Paris
Auguste Lethière
c. 1815
Graphite
8 1⁄4 × 6 1⁄8 in. (21.1 × 15.6 cm)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Leisser Art Fund, 71.56

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Montauban, France 1780–1867 Paris
Charles Lethière
1818
Graphite
11 1⁄4 × 8 1⁄2 in. (28 × 21.5 cm)
Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, 16.442

Jean-Pierre Cortot
Paris 1787–1843 Paris
Guillaume Lethière
1814
Marble
26 3⁄8 × 13 × 11 in. (67 × 33 × 28 cm)
Collections de l’Académie de France à Rome–Villa Médicis, S3

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Judgment of Paris 
c. 1812
Watercolor over black chalk, squared in black chalk for transfer
18 × 23 3⁄8 in. (45.6 × 59.4 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
William B. O’Neal Fund, 1998.100.1a

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Judgment of Paris
1812
Oil on canvas
78 × 110 in. (198 × 279.4 cm)
Private collection

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Homer Singing His Iliad at the Gates of Athens
1814
Oil on canvas
78 × 96 7⁄8 in. (198 × 246 cm)
Nottingham City Museums and Galleries, England, NCM 1884-1


Revolution in the Colonies

François Le Villain
active 1820s–1830s
after Barincou
Alexandre Pétion
c. 1820
Lithograph
13 3⁄8 × 9 1⁄2 in. (34 × 24 cm)
Musée d’Aquitaine, Ville de Bordeaux, France
Collection Chatillon L426; 2003.4.344

Artist unknown
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
from La vie de J.-J. Dessalines, chef des noirs révoltés de Saint-Domingue (The Life of J.-J. Dessalines, Leader of the Black Rebels of Saint-Domingue) by Louis Dubroca
(Paris: Dubroca, 1804)
Engraved figure cut out and pasted onto a sheet of paper, framed in pen and brown ink
5 3⁄4 × 3 3⁄4 in. (14.6 × 9.5 cm)
Daguillard Collection

Denis Alexandre Volozan
Lyon 1765–1820 Philadelphia
Equestrian Portrait of Toussaint Louverture
c. 1800
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, graphite
18 1⁄2 × 14 7⁄8 in. (47 × 37.7 cm)
Musée d’Aquitaine, Ville de Bordeaux, France,
Collection Chatillon 20; 2003.4.188

Artist unknown
after Eugène Fromentin
La Rochelle, France 1820–1876 La Rochelle
Jean-Pierre Boyer, President of Haiti
c. 1820
Lithograph
13 × 10 in. (33.2 × 25.3 cm)
Musée d’Aquitaine, Ville de Bordeaux, France
Collection Chatillon L147; 2003.4.335

David d’Angers
Angers, France 1788–1856 Paris
Jean-Pierre Boyer
1845
Bronze
7 in. (17.7 cm)
Daguillard Collection

Adolphe Roehn
Paris 1760–1867 Malakoff, France
Swearing in of President Boyer before the Palace of Haiti
c. 1818
Oil on canvas
21 3⁄8 × 25 3⁄4 in. (54.3 × 65.4 cm)
Clark Art Institute, 2019.3


Oath of the Ancestors

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Oath of the Ancestors
1822
Oil on canvas
131 1⁄2 × 89 3⁄4 in. (334 × 228 cm)
Musée du Panthéon National Haïtien, Port-au-Prince
*While the Musée du Panthéon National Haïtien generously agreed to lend Oath of the Ancestors to the exhibition, the current humanitarian crisis in Haiti prevented it from traveling at the time of the exhibition’s opening.

Artist unknown
after Nicolas Eustache Maurin
Perpignan, France 1799–1850 Paris
Saint Benedict the Moor
in Manuel de piété à l’usage des hommes de couleur et des noirs (Manual of Piety for Men of Color and Black Men) by Henri Grégoire
Paris: Baudouin frères, 1822
Lithograph
Illustration: 7 x 4 in. (17.7 x 10.3 cm)
Book: 7 1/8 x 4 1/2 x 5/8 in. (18.2 × 11.5 × 1.6 cm)
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, département de la Réserve des livres rares, D-36545

Augustine Cochet de Saint-Omer
Saint-Omer, France 1792–1833 Paris
François Fournier de Pescay
1831
Oil on canvas
38 3⁄4 × 31 1⁄2 in. (98.5 × 80 cm)
Musée du Service de santé des armées, Paris, 2006; 1814 (formerly M. H. 104)

Students and Influence

Jean-Baptiste-Adolphe Gibert
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe 1806–1889 Nice
Death of Adonis
1829
Oil on canvas
44 3⁄4 × 57 7⁄8 in. (113.5 × 147 cm)
Beaux-Arts de Paris, PRP 71

Jean-Baptiste-Adolphe Gibert
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe 1806–1889 Nice
Historical Landscape
c. 1830–33
Oil on canvas
55 1⁄8 × 86 5⁄8 in. (140 × 220 cm)
Centre national des arts plastiques, FNAC PFH-2579
On deposit at Musée barrois, Bar-le-Duc, France, 76647

Jean-Abel Lordon
Paris 1801–1876 Paris
Attack on the Barracks at rue de Babylone, July 29, 1830
1830–31
Oil on canvas
58 1⁄4 × 66 1⁄8 in. (148 × 168 cm)
Musée du Louvre, Paris, RF 571
On deposit at Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, France, MV 6310

Eulalie Morin
Nantes, France 1765–1852
Juliette Récamier
1799
Oil on canvas
45 3⁄4 × 35 1⁄2 in. (116 × 90 cm)
Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, France, MV 5344

Eugénie Servières
Paris 1783–1855 Paris
Inès de Castro and Her Children at the Feet of Alfonso IV of Portugal, 1355
1822
Oil on canvas
45 3⁄8 × 56 1⁄8 in. (115.3 × 142.5 cm)
Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, France, MV 7250

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot
Paris 1784–1845 Paris
Self-Portrait
1825
Oil on canvas
29 1⁄8 × 23 5⁄8 in. (74 × 60 cm)
Musée du Louvre, Paris, MI 719

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot
Paris 1784–1845 Paris
Wedding Trip
1825
Oil on canvas
241⁄8 × 20 in. (61.3 × 50.8 cm)
Clark Art Institute, 2021.10

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot
Paris 1784–1845 Paris
Guillaume Lethière Seated at a Table, Working by Lamplight
c. 1813
Brush and brown wash, graphite
11 1⁄4 × 9 in. (28.5 × 23 cm)
Musée du Louvre, Paris, RF 6821, recto

Charles-Raymond Chabrillac
Paris 1804–1879 Paris
Guillaume Lethière
c. 1832
Red chalk, charcoal
7 5⁄8 × 5 1⁄2 in. (19.4 × 14.2 cm)
Musée Carnavalet–Histoire de Paris, D.267

Charles-Raymond Chabrillac
Paris 1804–1879 Paris
Souvenir of Lethière’s Studio in 1823
1823
Pen and brown and black ink, brush and brown wash, red and black chalk, watercolor
9 3⁄4 × 17 1⁄8 in. (24.9 × 43.5 cm)
Musée Carnavalet–Histoire de Paris, D.266

Artist unknown, cast by Edmond-Paul Gruet
Paris 1863–1904 Paris
Guillaume Lethière
c. 1891–1904
Bronze
24 × 12 3⁄4 × 11 in. (61 × 32.5 × 28 cm)
Beaux-Arts de Paris, MU8876


Late Career

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Carlo and Ubaldo in Armida’s Garden
c. 1815–20
Oil on canvas
21 1⁄4 × 28 7⁄8 in. (54 × 72.2 cm)
Private collection

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Venus and Adonis
Before 1817
Oil on canvas
23 × 27 in. (58.5 × 68.5 cm)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France, 975.4.179

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Venus and Vulcan 
1822
Black chalk, graphite, pen and brown and gray ink, brush and blue and brown wash
25 7⁄8 × 20 1⁄8 in. (65.7 × 51 cm)
Collection Hervé Aaron

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
View of the Genzano Castle in the Roman Countryside
1819
Oil on canvas
18 3⁄4 × 27 1⁄2 in. (47.6 × 69.9 cm)
Musée d’art et d’histoire, Saint-Lô, France, 1972.04.002

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Condemnation of Rhea Silvia by Amulius
c. 1822
Oil on canvas
9 1⁄2 × 12 3⁄4 in. (24 × 32.5 cm)
Saint Louis Art Museum
Bequest of Edith J. and C.C. Johnson Spink, Friends Fund, and museum purchase, all by exchange, 249: 2022

Guillaume Lethière
Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Study for the Figure of Virginius
c. 1823–28
Black chalk
13 3⁄8 × 9 1⁄4 in. (33.9 × 23.7 cm)
Musée du Louvre, Paris, RF 52618, recto

Guillaume Lethière Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Study for the Figure of Virginia
c. 1823–28
Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white
11 7⁄8 × 8 1⁄2 in. (29.1 × 21.6 cm)
Musée du Louvre, Paris, RF 52613, recto

Guillaume Lethière Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Study for the Group of Virginia
c. 1823–28
Graphite, heightened with white
12 3⁄4 × 14 3⁄8 in. (32.5 × 36.5 cm)
Musée du Louvre, Paris, RF 52616, recto

Guillaume Lethière Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Death of Virginia
c. 1823–28
Oil on canvas
16 × 24 in. (40.5 × 61 cm)
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, France, P 447

Guillaume Lethière Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Death of Virginia
c. 1823–28
Oil on paper, mounted on canvas
29 × 46 in. (73.5 × 117 cm)
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2023.7

Guillaume Lethière Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760–1832 Paris
Lafayette Introducing Louis-Philippe to the People of Paris
1830–31
Oil on canvas
23 1⁄2 × 30 in. (59.5 × 76 cm)
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, 1132-AB053