GIRODET-TRIOSON Anne-Louis (1767-1824).

GIRODET-TRIOSON Anne-Louis (1767-1824).
9 autograph MANUSCRIPTS of POEMS| 15 and a half pages in various sizes, mostly in-4 or in-fol.
Nice set of poems by the painter.
Ode to Painting, edited to 28 lines. "Daughter of a sweet lie and of truth
Eloquent interpreter and of the heart, and of the soul
You whom a divine flame always warms
Muse be forever my only deity"...
Anecdote sur Jouvenet peintre français, conte| satirical piece of about sixty verses, opposing rivals in an academic contest: Jouvenet and Maître Crouton| piece followed by a true Anecdote of 16 verses, aimed at a lady painter...
À Monsieur Denon Directr du Musée &c. Quatrain of homage to Vivant DENON: "You who, for the fine arts, have signalled your zeal", etc.
My journey to the Chalet, a piece of 26 verses dedicated "to Madame de Montgeroult who had led me to visit the hermitage of J.J. Rousseau's hermitage, where Mr Gretry lives" [the pianist and composer Hélène de MONTGEROULT (1764- 1836): "Yesterday admitted in the hermitage / Where the author of Héloïse expressed his ardours"...
To my dear Caroline, a long epistle (more than 200 verses) in two versions: working manuscripts with erasures and blots| and an untitled version: "Why so late in my peaceful soul / Has love awakened all its fires?
Eulogy for CABANIS [Pierre-Jean-Georges CABANIS (1757-5 May 1808), physician, politician and philosopher| Girodet had made in 1804 a portrait of his wife, Charlotte de Grouchy, sister of the future marshal and of Sophie de Condorcet], nearly 100 verses, with erasures and corrections (comments on a sheet of paper from the friend "F.D."]: "Friends of the human race, of the beautiful arts of virtues / Weep all, moan| Cabanis no longer lives"...
Song, on the tune, Objet de ma tendresse, in 4 verses: "Beauty too inhuman / Listen at last to Love"... "O my Delie, let us hasten to rejoice!", rondeau.
An autograph manuscript (2 pages in-4) is attached, drafts of reflections in prose on glory, talent, human error, etc.