Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-374) and index.
Contents
Reassessing Rembrandt -- Reinventing the Biography, Creating the Myth -- The Formation of Rembrandts Artistic Persona in Nineteenth-Century France -- Plates -- Politicizing Rembrandt -- An Exemplar for New Aesthetic Values, Realism, and Republicanism -- Picturing the Myth -- Rembrandts Body and Images of the Old Master Artist -- Rembrandt the "Master" Printmaker -- Choosing an Ancestral Figure for French Painter-Printmakers -- The Rembrandt Strategy -- Etchers and Engravers Fashion their Professional Identities -- Conclusion -- Repercussions of the Cult of Rembrandt -- Notes -- Appendix -- Interpretive Prints after Rembrandt.
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Summary
A study of the reinvention of Rembrandt in 19th-century France.