L'affaire Greuze and the sublime of history painting.(Jean-Baptiste Greuze, France)(Critical Essay)

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

In the Salon of 1765 the painting that caused the greatest stir was Jean-Honore Fragonard's highly praised morceau d'agrement (acceptance piece), Coresus and Callirhoe (Fig. 1). (1) This large-scale machine (canvas) depicts the climax of the story, originally related by Pausanias in his guide to Greece, where the high priest of the Calydonians, Coresus, plunges a knife into his chest, thereby sacrificing himself in place of the object of his unrequited love, Callirhoe. As it turns out, such ambitious history painting would prove to be the exception rather than the norm in ...

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