Coriolanus Taking Leave of His Family

Coriolanus Taking Leave of His Family is a 1786 history painting by the French artist Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson.

[1] It depicts a scene featuring the legendary Roman general Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus departing from his grieving family, having been banished from the city.

[2] The eighteen-year old Girodet, a student of Jacques-Louis David, submitted it as his entry for that year's Prix de Rome.

[3] He moved to Rome from 1789 to 1793 to study and later became to emerge the Neoclassism used in his early works with the emerging Romantic style.

[4] Today the painting is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, having been acquired in 2019.