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- Title
Delacroix's Sardanapalus, Champmartin's Janissaries, and Liberalism in the Late Restoration.
- Authors
Lambertson, John P.
- Abstract
This article explores the relationship between Eugène Delacroix and his friend Charles-Emile Champmartin to explain Delacroix's transformation of the Sardanapalus theme, its contemporary meaning, and its reception. Delacroix enjoyed a long friendship with Champmartin, and was enthralled by Champmartin's accounts of his trip to Turkey and the Near East in 1826. Champmartins' watercolor studies and depiction of the Massacre of the Jannisaries offered Delacroix models for ethnic local colour, the Romantic anti-hero and a conceptual transformation of the Sardanapalus legend. When seen as the product of artistic collaboration, the Death of Sardanapalus and the Massacre of the Jannisaries appear as pendants expressing the prophetic lesson that absolutist repression would lead to the Right, the paintings were also rejected outright by Liberals which reveals the complex nature of liberalism and its relationship to art in the late French Restoration.
- Subjects
ARTS; LIBERALISM; SOCIAL sciences; FRENCH people; DELACROIX, Eugene, 1798-1863; MEANING (Philosophy); PAINTING; FRENCH watercolor painting
- Publication
Oxford Art Journal, 2002, Vol 25, Issue 2, p65
- ISSN
0142-6540
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/oxartj/25.2.65