# Hermione Rejecting Orestes

- By: Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (French, 1767-1824)
- Date: c. 1799
- Medium: Pen and black ink and black chalk, with stumping, and brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on ivory laid paper
- Classification: Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions: 26.3 × 32.3 cm (10 3/8 × 12 3/4 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Margaret Day Blake Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/105468)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/874c8b4d-acd0-99c6-59ec-bde7d6731197/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Girodet was one of the star pupils of Jacques Louis David. As a young man, he supported himself by making drawings as book illustrations. For the deluxe three-volume edition of the works of Jean Racine, published in 1801, Girodet provided drawings for Phaedra and Andromaque. This sheet is a preparatory work for the latter; it is the scene in which Hermione spurns Orestes after he has killed Pyrrhus at her request.

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