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Portrait of Zacharie Astruc

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Description: Portrait of Zacharie Astruc
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Description: Fellow Men: Fantin-Latour and the Problem of the Group in Nineteenth-Century French...
WRITING in 1904 soon after Fantin-Latour’s death, the French critic Charles Morice issued a sharp critique of the artist’s œuvre:
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.105-155
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00049.006
Chapter subject tags:Artists' studios in art
Description: Manet and the Modern Tradition
~As if to signal the demise of the traditional hierarchy of subject matter which placed portrait and landscape on a lower level than ‘history’ painting, Castagnary, in his review of 1867, announced that the portrait demanded the highest faculties of the painter, and represented the culmination of the art of painting. His reason was that ‘With a single portrait of Clouet, Holbein, Van Dyck, Titian, Rigaud, David, you can reconstruct, with the person who served as model, the entire epoch when that person lived.’ Castagnary, Salons, I,...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.74-78
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00079.011

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