A draughtsman's contract court and country in the work of Louis Lafitte
"After the Revolution and Empire, draughtsmanship still functioned as an entry ticket for academic architects, painters, sculptors and engravers. This context underlies the career of Louis Lafitte (1770-1828), whose works are the subject of this chapter. Arriving at the Royal Academy at the mom...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Time, media, and visuality in post-revolutionary France / edited by Iris Moon and Richard Taws |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "After the Revolution and Empire, draughtsmanship still functioned as an entry ticket for academic architects, painters, sculptors and engravers. This context underlies the career of Louis Lafitte (1770-1828), whose works are the subject of this chapter. Arriving at the Royal Academy at the moment of its dissolution during the Revolution, he contributed portraits, battle paintings and drawings to the Salon during the Empire, but his main occupation was to be an ancillary draughtsman to other artists. He became "Dessinateur du Cabinet du Roi" under Louis XVIII, retaining that office when Charles X succeeded to the throne, but never gained a seat in the Academy. Lafitte also made drawings of his family that were not exhibited during his lifetime. His career illustrates two models: the court functionary whose role flatters his masters through the prestige of drawing, and the craftsman for whom drawing is also a private practice, memorializing bourgeois family life." |
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| Beschreibung: | Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5013-4839-6 |