Fellow Men: Fantin-Latour and the Problem of the Group in Nineteenth-Century French Painting PDF
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Fellow Men Fellow Men Fantin-L atour and the Problem of the Group in Nineteenth-C entury French Painting Bridget Alsdorf Princeton University Press Princeton & Oxford Copyright © 2013 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW press.princeton.edu Jacket Art: Henri Fantin- Latour, (1836-1904). Detail of Corner of a Table (Coin de table), 1872, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Oil on canvas, 160 × 225 cm. A group portrait of, from left, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Pierre- Elzéar Bonnier, Léon Valade, Emile Blémont, Jean Aicard, Ernest d’Hervilly, Camille Pelletan. Photo: Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY. All Rights Reserved Frontispiece: See plate 3. Henri Fantin- Latour, A Studio in the Batignolles Quarter (Un atelier aux Batignolles), 1870, oil on canvas, 204 × 273.5 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Photo by Hervé Lewandowski, ©Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Alsdorf, Bridget. Fellow men : Fantin-Latour and the problem of the group in nineteenth- century French painting / Bridget Alsdorf. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-691-15367-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Fantin-Latour, Henri, 1836-1904—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Portraits, Group—France. 3. Artists—France—Portraits. 4. Identity (Psychology) in art. 5. Portrait painting, French—19th century. 6. Art and society—France—History—19th century. I. Title. ND553.F32A85 2012 759.4—dc23 2012009584 British Library Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available This publication is made possible in part by a grant from the Barr Ferree Foundation Fund for Publications, Princeton University. This book has been composed in Garamond Pro Printed on acid-f ree paper. ∞ Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Todd and Nick Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1 • The Self in Group Portraiture 19 In Homage 21 Moi et Delacroix 39 Manet: “One in a thousand, or alone” 56 Degas: Relational Portraiture 61 Chapter 2 • A Crisis of Pride 68 Mutual Admiration Society 70 Courbet’s Studio 74 To Truth! 79 Mirror, Mirror 82 Chapter 3 • Studio of the Self 105 Solitary Confinement 111 Velázquez’s Mirror 131 Bazille’s Studio 144 Secret Societies 149 Chapter 4 • Deviance and Disappearance 156 Les Vilains Bonshommes 160 Courbet / Fantin / Pelletan 178 In Absentia 189 Manet’s Crowd 193 Rimbaud the Bourgeois 198 Chapter 5 • The Irregularists 203 Renoir’s Society 206 An Impressionist’s Studio 215 Degas, Odd Man In 217 Conclusion 228 Notes 243 Selected Bibliography 309 Index 323
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