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Date |
2007-07 |
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abstract |
This essay explores Mme Geoffrin’s commission of two paintings from Carle Van Loo:
the Conversation espagnole (1754) and Lecture espagnole (c. 1755). It argues that
the “Spanish” theme needs to be understood with reference to the French discourse
on galanterie and to aristocratic spectacle. It also explores the significance of
the choice of Mme de Lafayette’s novel, Zayde (1671), as the reading matter in the
Lecture. The central contention is that Van Loo’s paintings evoked the seventeenth-century
heyday of galanterie, in which women were thought to have enjoyed far greater cultural
authority than they did in Geoffrin’s own day. |
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authors |
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issue |
4 |
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peerReviewed |
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volume |
40 |
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AcademicArticle |
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Article |
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label |
Barker, Emma (2007). Mme Geoffrin, painting and galanterie: Carle Van Loo’s Conversation
espagnole and Lecture espagnole. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 40(4) pp. 587–614.
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Barker, Emma (2007). Mme Geoffrin, painting and galanterie: Carle Van Loo’s Conversation
espagnole and Lecture espagnole. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 40(4) pp. 587–614. |
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Title |
Mme Geoffrin, painting and galanterie: Carle Van Loo’s Conversation espagnole and
Lecture espagnole |
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