The Deposition of Atala, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (Montargis, 1767 – Paris, 1824), Follower of

Atala's deposition

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)

The proposed painting draws inspiration from the painting 'Atala at the Sepulchre', the fulcrum work of the French pre-romantic movement, which combines the themes of sacrifice and death in a moving scene on the same canvas, the work of the painter Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson .

Favorite pupil of Jean-Louis David, from whom he inherited a formal neoclassical language, he presented this painting, considered among his best creations, at the Paris Salon in 1808, and today it is exhibited at the Louvre Museum.

The subject is taken from the novel by François-René de Chateaubriand - a writer considered the founder of French literary Romanticism - which tells of the unhappy and unfortunate love of Chactas, a young native, for the daughter of a Spaniard and an Indian who converted to Christianity, the beautiful Atala.

Here the indigenous warrior Chactas cries clutching the legs of his beloved, the Native American convert to Christianity Atala, belonging to a rival tribe. Although the two managed to escape from their respective families to pursue their love, Atala is bound from birth by a vow of chastity, and prefers to ingest poison, which quickly leads to her death, rather than give in to the temptation of love for Chactas.

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