The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt
Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
388 pages
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20 color plates, 80 halftones
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6-1/4 x 9-1/2
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© 2004
Rembrandt's life and art had an almost mythic resonance in nineteenth-century France with artists, critics, and collectors alike using his artistic persona both as a benchmark and as justification for their own goals. This first in-depth study of the traditional critical reception of Rembrandt reveals the preoccupation with his perceived "authenticity," "naturalism," and "naiveté," demonstrating how the artist became an ancestral figure, a talisman with whom others aligned themselves to increase the value of their own work. And in a concluding chapter, the author looks at the play Rembrandt, staged in Paris in 1898, whose production and advertising are a testament to the enduring power of the artist's myth.
"McQueen’s study perceptively chronicles Rembrandt’s rising stature and its considerable impact upon nineteenth-century French printmaking."--Historians of Netherlandish Art Review of Books
"The book is very fine art history in a broad sense, scientifically based on extensive research clearly distilled after reflective thought on the multitude of sources. . . . A solid, readable, and noteworthy addition to the literature. [The book] adds measurably to our understanding of how a major painter came to define the icon of painterly genius."
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Reassessing Rembrandt
Chapter 1 - Reinventing the Biography, Creating the Myth
The Formation of Rembrandts Artistic Persona in Nineteenth-Century France
Plates
Chapter 2 - Politicizing Rembrandt
An Exemplar for New Aesthetic Values, Realism, and Republicanism
Chapter 3 - Picturing the Myth
Rembrandts Body and Images of the Old Master Artist
Chapter 4 - Rembrandt the "Master" Printmaker
Choosing an Ancestral Figure for French Painter-Printmakers
Chapter 5 - The Rembrandt Strategy
Etchers and Engravers Fashion their Professional Identities
Conclusion
Repercussions of the Cult of Rembrandt
Notes
Appendix
Interpretive Prints after Rembrandt
Bibliography
Illustration Acknowledgements
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Reassessing Rembrandt
Chapter 1 - Reinventing the Biography, Creating the Myth
The Formation of Rembrandts Artistic Persona in Nineteenth-Century France
Plates
Chapter 2 - Politicizing Rembrandt
An Exemplar for New Aesthetic Values, Realism, and Republicanism
Chapter 3 - Picturing the Myth
Rembrandts Body and Images of the Old Master Artist
Chapter 4 - Rembrandt the "Master" Printmaker
Choosing an Ancestral Figure for French Painter-Printmakers
Chapter 5 - The Rembrandt Strategy
Etchers and Engravers Fashion their Professional Identities
Conclusion
Repercussions of the Cult of Rembrandt
Notes
Appendix
Interpretive Prints after Rembrandt
Bibliography
Illustration Acknowledgements
Index
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