« La chose riche et élégante » : le Portrait d’Edmond de Goncourt de Jean-François Raffaëlli

In 1888, the French artist Jean-François Raffaëlli painted a full-length portrait of the writer Edmond de Goncourt in his home. The work was the first of several joint projects the pair would embark on between 1888 and 1890. Perhaps no other work would challenge Raffaëlli’s approach more fundamental...

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spelling cairn-RDA_223_0064RDARevue de l'art https://shs.cairn.info/revue-de-l-art-2024-1-page-64?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rda.223.0064 « La chose riche et élégante » : le Portrait d’Edmond de Goncourt de Jean-François Raffaëlli Rosenberg-Miller, Carmen2024 fre Revue de l'art | 223 | 1 | 2024-04-23 | p. 64-75 | 0035-1326 RDA_22387 In 1888, the French artist Jean-François Raffaëlli painted a full-length portrait of the writer Edmond de Goncourt in his home. The work was the first of several joint projects the pair would embark on between 1888 and 1890. Perhaps no other work would challenge Raffaëlli’s approach more fundamentally than painting Goncourt’s portrait. For Raffaëlli, portraying this esteemed writer also entailed portraying Goncourt’s worldview, much of which was fundamentally at odds with his own. These differences concerned the very premise of Raffaëlli’s philosophy of art: what comprises character; where it resides; and how it differs according to one’s social position. Painting Goncourt forced Raffaëlli to confront these differences head-on and, in turn, to make the aesthetic and ethical compromises involved in truly making space for another person in your art.Cairn restricted access
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description In 1888, the French artist Jean-François Raffaëlli painted a full-length portrait of the writer Edmond de Goncourt in his home. The work was the first of several joint projects the pair would embark on between 1888 and 1890. Perhaps no other work would challenge Raffaëlli’s approach more fundamentally than painting Goncourt’s portrait. For Raffaëlli, portraying this esteemed writer also entailed portraying Goncourt’s worldview, much of which was fundamentally at odds with his own. These differences concerned the very premise of Raffaëlli’s philosophy of art: what comprises character; where it resides; and how it differs according to one’s social position. Painting Goncourt forced Raffaëlli to confront these differences head-on and, in turn, to make the aesthetic and ethical compromises involved in truly making space for another person in your art.
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« La chose riche et élégante » : le Portrait d’Edmond de Goncourt de Jean-François Raffaëlli
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title_full « La chose riche et élégante » : le Portrait d’Edmond de Goncourt de Jean-François Raffaëlli
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