Painting and Narrative in France, from Poussin to Gauguin (Hardcover)

Contents

List of Figures vii

Notes on Contributors xii

Acknowledgements xv

Introduction: Narrativity and (French) Painting
Peter Cooke and Nina Lubbren

Section I
Ancien Regime

1 Units of Vision and Narrative Structures: Upon Reading Poussin’s Manna
Claudine Mitchell

2 Figures of Narration in the Context of a Painted Cycle: The North Bays of the Grande Galerie at Versailles
Marianne Cojannot-Le Blanc

3 The Crisis of Narration in Eighteenth-century French History Painting
Susanna Caviglia

4 Obscure, Capricious and Bizarre: Neoclassical Painting and the Choice of Subject
Mark Ledbury

SECTION II
Restoration and July Monarchy

5 Delacroix and ‘The Work of the Reader’
Beth S. Wright

6 Narrative and History in Leopold Robert’s Arrival of the Harvesters in the Pontine Marshes
Richard Wrigley

7 Narrative Strategies in Paul Delaroche’s Assassination of the Duc de Guise
Patricia Smyth

SECTION III
Second Empire and Third Republic

8 Eloquent Objects: Gerome, Laurens and the Art of Inanimate Narration
Nina Lubbren

9 Tyrannical Inopportunity: Gustave Moreau’s Anti-narrative Strategies
Scott C. Allan

10 Theatricality Versus Anti-Theatricality: Narrative Techniques in French History Painting (1850?1900)
Pierre Serie

11 The Conflicted Status of Narrative in the Art of Paul Gauguin
Belinda Thomson

SECTION IV
Key Issues of Pictorial Narrative

12 Narrativity, Temporality and Allegorisation, from Poussin to Moreau
Peter Cooke

13 Towards a Study of Narration in Painting: The Early Modern Period
Etienne Jollet

Index