IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 241906 accession number: PD.12-2020 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 13 August 2020 updated: Tuesday 24 May 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Two full length studies of a draped fable figure with laurel wreath headdress and veil, with a smaller drapery study in the centre. Preparatory studies for the figure of Humanity in 'The Genius of France animates the Arts, protects Humanity', commissioned to adorn one of the ceilings in the Musée Charles X rooms in the Louvre and finally executed in 1833. title: drawing NOTES ----- type: history note value: Jean-Baptiste Delestre (no. 58 from his collection of drawings by baron Gros); Gaston Delestre; thence by descent; sold Artcurial, 'Gaston Delestre Collection: two centuries of family passion', sale no. 3162, 22 March 2017, lot 55 (€1,300) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by John Vaughan Hart, 2020 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/241906 TECHNIQUES ---------- pen and brown ink on paper drawing CATEGORIES ------ category: drawing DATING ------ culture: 18th Century-19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Gros, Antoine Jean, baron DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: mm value: 180 dimension: Width units: mm value: 227 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Gros, ses amis et ses élèves (Gros, his friends and pupils)