Author: Hardouin-Fugier, Elisabeth ; Françoise Dupuis-Testenoire
Title: Le Peintre Et L'Animal En France Au Xixe Siècle
Description: Paris, France, Editions de l'Amateur, 2001. Hardcover. Color illustrated dustjacket, green cloth-bound boards with embossed lettering. (5) 6-367 pp. features many color illustrations. "A painting representing an animal is both an aesthetic work and, more than any other subject, a reflection of the social life of an era: here is the horse of virile and military authority painted by Gericault; to the woman reurn the dove of a virtue a la Greuze and the babbling parrot that crosses the century, from Delacroix to Manet and Ziem. Here are the horses of Dedreux, and the cattle always more important in a France still so rural: in Barbizon - Troyon or Millet - or in Normandy - Bouding and Roll. Marker of the distances between man and beast, the animal of Grandville is closest to man, the ferocious tiger of Delacroix the furthest away. This journey, rich in new perspectives, illustrated with more than 500 reproductions of paintings, crosses the destinies of the most famous artists, such as Rosa Bonheur, and a number of forgotten painters (Vuillefroy or Van Marcke), gathered in a very important illustrated dictionary including all the artists who, often or rarely, closely or remotely, from the house of the mammoth, have represented animals" - translated from abstract. VG .

Keywords: European Art ; French Animal Paintings ; ; General Art - European


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