Benjamin-Constant – Un orientaliste français anglophile

Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone

关键词: art history;    British art;    art market;    auction houses;    museums;    collectors;   

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【 摘 要 】

The exhibition Benjamin-Constant (1845-1902) held at the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse in fall/winter 2014-15 and at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Canada, in Winter-Spring 2015, organized under the auspices of the French Regional American Museum Exchange (FRAME), gives the opportunity to highlight the links of Benjamin-Constant with the English-speaking world. Indeed, after his orientalist period, the fame and prestige of this Toulouse-raised painter was much enhanced by his trips to the USA and England. In the United States, his decorative talents and his portraits were very much sought after by the wealthy patrician families and industry barons. Such trips testify to his boldness, adventurousness and entrepreneurship. In England, his reputation was such that he was commissioned to paint the portrait of Queen Victoria, shortly before the Jubilee.

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