Hi gingerino!!
Reading your question and searching the Louvre database, I conclude
that the painting that are you looking for is "Le Déluge" or "Scene du
Déluge" by Girodet (GIRODET DE ROUSSY, ANNE LOUIS).
A brief biography of this painter:
"GIRODET DE ROUSSY, ANNE LOUIS (1767-1824), French painter, better
known as Girodet-Trioson, was born at Montargis on the 5th of January
1767. He lost his parents in early youth and the care of his fortune
and education fell to the lot of hi: guardian, M. Trioson, "
medecindemesdames," by whom he wa: in later life adopted. After some
preliminary studies under a painter named Luquin, Girodet entered the
school of David and at the age of twenty-two he successfully competed
for the rix de Rome. At Rome he executed his "Hippocrate refusant es
presents d'Artaxerxes "and" Endymiondormant " (Louvre), work which was
hailed with acclamation at the Salon of 1792. The peculiarities which
mark Girodet's position as the herald f the romantic movement are
already evident in his " Endymion." The firm-set forms, the grey cold
colour, the hardness of the execution are proper to one trained in the
school of David, but hese characteristics harmonize ill with the
literary, sentimental and picturesque suggestions which the painter
has sought to render. The same incongruity marks Girodet's " Danae "
and his ' Quatre Saisons," executed for the king of Spain (repeated
for ^ompiegne), and shows itself to a ludicrous extent in his "
Fingal" St Petersburg, Leuchtenberg collection), executed for Napoleon
'.. in 1802. This work unites the defects of the classic and romantic
schools, for Girodet's imagination ardently and exclusively pursued
the ideas excited by varied reading both of classic and of modern
literature, and the impressions which he received from the external
world afforded him little stimulus or check; he consequently retained
the mannerisms of his master's practice whilst rejecting all restraint
on choice of subject. The credit lost by'' Fingal "Girodet regained in
1806, when he exhibited ' Scene de Deluge " (Louvre), to which (in
competition with the 'Sabines" of David) was awarded the decennial
prize. This success was followed up in 1808 by the production of the "
Reddition de Vienne " and " Atala au Tombeau "—a work which went far
to deserve its immense popularity, by a happy choice of subject, and
remarkable freedom from the theatricality of Girodet's usual manner,
which, however, soon came to the front again in his " Revoke de Caire
" (1810). His pcwers now began to fail, and his habit of working at
night and other excesses told upon bus constitution; in the Salon of
1812 he exhibited only a "Tete de Vierge "; in 1819 " Pygmalion et
Galatee " showed a still Further decline of strength; and in 1824—the
year in which he produced his portraits of Cathelineau and
Bonchamps—Girodet died on the gth of December.
He executed a vast quantity of illustrations, amongst which may be
cited those to the Didot Virgil (1798) and to the Louvre Racine
(1801—1805). Fifty-four of his designs for Anacreon were engraved by
M. Chatillon. Girodet wasted much time on literary composition, his
poem Le Peintre (a string of commonplaces), together with poor
imitations of classical poets, and essays on Le Genie and La Gr&ce,
were published after his death (1829), with a biographical notice by
his friend M. Coupin de la Couperie; and M. Delecluze, in his Louis
David et son temps, has also a brief life of_Girodet. _"
Taken from "The 1911 Edition Encyclopedia"
http://90.1911encyclopedia.org/G/GI/GIRODET_DE_ROUSSY_A_L_.htm
At the Base Joconde, a database of the Ministére de la Culture of
France which includes 120,000 descriptions of drawings, prints and
paintings from the VIIth century to present, of the collections of
over 60 museums in France, I found that the iconography source of this
paint is the lyric poetry, specifically the Divine Comedy by Dante
Alighieri.
http://www.culture.fr/cgi-bin/wave.cgi?liste=wpi04&numero=31&session=94758
An image of the painting:
http://www.culture.fr/cgi-bin/wave.cgi?image=/Wave/image/joconde/0036/m501104_0000310_p.jpg&session=94758
A detail of the woman:
http://www.gedankennetz.at/paris/p023.html
Also you can see a page called Girodet (for more info about the
painting and the painter):
http://perso.club-internet.fr/rpastor/EVY/romantisme/girodetar.html
This page is in french, so may be you want a translated version page:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://perso.club-internet.fr/rpastor/EVY/romantisme/girodetar.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dgirodet%2B%2B%2522Le%2Bd%25C3%25A9luge%2522%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8
Viewing the Louvre magazine I found this!!:
"Tableau du mois de novembre 2002
Scène de déluge
par Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson"
http://www.louvre.fr/francais/magazine/redecouv/peint/tableau.htm
The translated version of the page:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.louvre.fr%2Ffrancais%2Fmagazine%2Fredecouv%2Fpeint%2Ftableau.htm&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
See the following page:
http://www.louvre.fr/francais/magazine/redecouv/peint/nov2002/tab_f.htm
Translated version:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.louvre.fr%2Ffrancais%2Fmagazine%2Fredecouv%2Fpeint%2Fnov2002%2Ftab_f.htm&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
And for a large image of the "New Draft" or "esquisse inédite" of the
paint:
http://www.louvre.fr/img/photos/magazine/rf2001-15.jpg
I hope you find this answer satisfactory.
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