The Mourning of Pallas, ca0?93, Pen and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, heightened with white, 8 7/16 x 6 1/2 in. (21. 5 x 16. 5 cm), Drawings, Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson (French, Montargis 1767?1824 Paris), Pierre Didot l'aine's project to revive the art of fine book publishing in the years following the Revolution provided welcome income for a number of David's students. Some of the greatest examples of French Neoclassical book illustration were the result of these ambitious undertakings, most notably the designs for the 1798 edition of Virgil, based on drawings supplied by Girodet and Francois Gerard