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TitlePortrait of a Kleptomaniac

Creator nameGéricault, Théodore

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1820

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium

SubjectsPhysiognomy in artMental illness in artPainting, French--19th centuryMen--Portraits

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Coda: Wounded Warrior Redux

Thomas E. Crow

Emulation: David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of Revolutionary France

~The Salon of 1806 had been the scene of Girodet’s great claim to equality with David in Scene from a Deluge (pl. 167). It also...

Author

Thomas E. Crow

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.279-299

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00330.12

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Chapter subject tags:Géricault, Théodore, 1791-1824Art criticism--France--History--19th centuryRomanticism--France--19th centuryPainting, French--19th centuryHistory painting, French--19th centuryPortrait painting, French--19th century

5. Masculinity and Monstrosity: The Body in Pieces

Anthea Callen

Looking at Men: Anatomy, Masculinity and the Modern Male Body

The massive fragments of classical sculpture – the hand and foot that the diminutive figure of Fuseli/the artist contemplates with such regret on the opening page of Linda Nochlin’s The Body in Pieces (fig. 5.1) – provide the perfect basis for this...

Author

Anthea Callen

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.184-221

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00297.6

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Chapter subject tags:Human anatomy--Study and teachingMedicine and artMasculinity in artHuman dissection

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