Spanish Painting and the French Romantics (Harvard Studies in Romance Languages, V. 32)

Prior to the Napoleonic campaigns, art connoisseurs in Europe and especially in France considered the few Spanish painters they recognized as belonging to the Italian schools. This situation changed radically in the first decades of the nineteenth century, however, when the flood of paintings from Spain into France, a result of large-scale acquisitions by Napoleon’s generals and other Frenchmen, influenced a new generation of French Romantic writers and provided a concrete basis for the idealized conception of Spanish themes and characters that was becoming increasingly prevalent in French literature. Ilse Hempel Lipschutz provides the first study of the role of Spanish painting in French literary imagination—from some of the earliest travel reports in the seventeenth century to the establishment in 1838 of Louis Philippe’s Musée espagnol. Balzac and Hugo, Musset and George Sand are among the writers given careful attention. Part 1. Paths To Discovery. Spanish Paintings In France Before 1808 -- Art Conquests Of The Empire -- The Period Of Discovery: 1810-1837 -- Louis Philippe's Musee Espagnol -- Part 1. Ut Pictura Poesis. The New Imagery And Esthetics: 1810-1830 -- The Flowering Of Romanticism: 1830-1838 -- Response To The Musee Espagnol -- Appendices. Spanish Paintings Listed In The Official Catalogues Of The Musee Du Louvre, 1810-1838 -- Spanish Paintings Listed In Private French Collections -- Movement Of Art Works During The Napoleonic Period. Bibliography: P. 327-358. Preface Contents Illustrations Part One. Paths to Discovery 1. Spanish Paintings in France before 1808 2. Art Conquests of the Empire 3. The Period of Discovery: 1810–1837 4. Louis Philippe’s Musée espagnol Part Two. Ut pidura poesis 5. The New Imagery and Esthetics: 1810–1830 6. The Flowering of Romanticism: 1830–1838 7. Response to the Musée espagnol Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. Index Appendices Bibliography Notes Index Spanish Painting and the French Romantics (Harvard Studies in Romance Languages)