Dickens, Opie, and Poussin's Deluge.(Charles Dickens, John Opie, Nicolas Poussin)(Critical essay)

The Explicator | September 22, 2008| | Copyright

On the strength of internal evidence in Little Dorrit--for example, the depiction of Henry Gowan's amateurishness (1)--it is possible that Charles Dickens was familiar with the edition of Royal Academy Lectures (by Barry, Opie, and Fuseli) that appeared in 1848. With this in mind, I would argue that Opie's analysis of a painting by Nicolas Poussin also shaped the virtuoso opening of Bleak House. To throw the coloristic subtlety of Poussin's Deluge into relief, Opie begins by referring to the emphatic chiaroscuro of Caravaggio--an instrument of differentiation that, ...

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