Title & Author:

Benjamin-Constant : marvels and mirages of orientalism / edited by Nathalie Bondil ; with the assistance of Samuel Montiège ; authors, Valerie Behiery [and 16 others].

Publication:

[Montreal] : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts ; Paris : Hazan, [2014]
New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press
©2014

Description:

399 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 32 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, October 4, 2014-January 4, 2015 and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, January 31-May 31, 2015.
Issued also in French with title: Benjamin-Constant : merveilles et mirages de l'orientalisme.
Published March 3, 2015. Cf. Yale University Press website.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-395) and index.
Machine-generated contents note: From Toulouse To Montreal: The Local Boy Who Became A Star In America / Axel Hemery -- I. THE ALLURE OF HISTORY PAINTING -- The Painter's Palette / Axel Hemery -- Entries -- Hamlet and the King / Dominique Lobstein -- Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist -- Beethoven -- The Moonlight Sonata / Samuel Montiege -- Beethoven's Death Mask / Axel Hemery -- Which History Painting? -- Benjamin-Constant States His Case / Nathalie Bondil -- Entries -- Entry of the Sultan Mehmed II into Constantinople on May 29, 1453 / Axel Hemery -- The Emperor Justinian -- Judith -- The Empress Theodora / Samuel Montiege -- Benjamin-Constant And Monumental Painting / Francois de Vergnette -- II. EXPERIENCING AND IMAGINING THE EAST, FROM SPAIN TO MOROCCO -- An "Orientalist From The Batignolles"? / Christine Peltre -- Entry -- The Favourites of the Emir / Samuel Montiege -- Granada, A Stage In Benjamin-Constant's Orientalist Journey -- The Cultural Context of the Visit To Spain And The Influence Of Mariano Fortuny / Francesc M. Quilez i Corella -- Entry -- Day after a Victory at the Alhambra / Nathalie Bondil -- Tangier and Benjamin-Constant's Oeuvre / Jordi A. Carbonell -- Entries -- Moroccan Prisoners / Samuel Montiege -- Evening on the Terrace (Morocco) / Nathalie Bondil -- Tangier and Morocco -- Leaves From A Painter's Note-Book -- Harper's New Monthly Magazine, April 1889 / Benjamin Constant -- Delacroix Versus Benjamin-Constant -- Artists And France on A Political Mission In Morocco / Florence Hudowicz -- Entries -- The Last Rebels, Scene of Moroccan History -- The King of Morocco Leaving to Receive a European Ambassador -- Thirst-Moroccan Prisoners -- The Moroccan Caid Tahamy / Samuel Montiege -- Day of a Funeral -- Moroccan Scene / Dominique Lobstein -- Painting The Erotic And Exotic Oriental Feminine In Quiescence / Christelle Taraud -- Entries -- The Pink Flamingo / Nathalie Bondil -- Interior of a Harem in Morocco / Samuel Montiege -- Eastern Beauty / Nathalie Bondil -- Sharifas -- Sharif's Justice-Moorish Spain / Samuel Montiege -- Contemporary Views: Three Women -- Three Artists / Valerie Behiery -- Interview with Yasmina Bouziane -- Interview with Lalla Essaydi -- Interview with Majida Khattari -- III. THE LIFE OF AN ARTIST -- Benjamin-Constant: The Life of the Artist / Regine Cardis -- Benjamin-Constant The Proteus Of The Salon / Dominique Lobslein -- Entries -- Queen Victoria / Ingrid Leduc -- Family Portraits -- Andre Benjamin-Constant -- Portrait of My Two Sons -- Portrait of Emmanuel, Son of the Artist -- Portrait of a Young Bearded Man, called An Albino / Axel Hemery -- Benjamin-Constant, Or How to succeed As A Painter in The Late Nineteenth-Century / Stephanie Prenant -- The Cream Of Society / Regine Cardis -- For Fame And Fortune -- A French Painter In The New World / Janet M. Brooke -- Entry -- The Byzantine and Venetian Cycles in the Boston Mansion of Frederick L. Ames / Christopher Carlsmith -- Training By The Rule -- An International Audience / Samuel Montiege -- Setting the Scene -- Artists Of The Orientalist Studio, Benjamin-Constant And Gerome / Dominique de Font-Reaulx -- Appendices -- Timeline / Samuel Montiege -- A Selection of Benjamin-Constant's European Portraits / Samuel Montiege -- Benjamin-Constant's North American Portraits / Janet M. Brooke -- The Students of Benjamin-Constant at the Academie Julian: An International Audience (Selective List) / Samuel Montiege -- Works Exhibited in Benjamin-Constant's Lifetime at the Cercles, the Salon of Lyons and the Societé des peintres orientalistes français -- Works by Benjamin-Constant Put on the Art Market by Boussod, Valadon et Cie -- The Annual Exhibitions in which Benjamin-Constant Participated -- An Overview of the Salon and Cercle Exhibitions in which Benjamin-Constant Participated / Stephanie Prenant.

Summary:

A leading Orientalist painter during the Third Republic in France, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant was one of the great colourists of the period, and his work evokes the sights he had witnessed during his travels in Spain and Morocco, as well as reflecting the exotic contents of his studio. He was the creator of huge, architectural compositions, in which he set fierce-looking Moors and dispassionate odalisques. His history paintings, based on stories from the Bible and Byzantine history, were the culmination of his ventures into Orientalism, and his sparkling palette resulted in wonderfully chromatic and beautiful works. He also stands out as one of the era's great painters of decorative cycles, from his work in Paris at the Opera Comique and the Gare d'Orsay, to the Capitole in Toulouse. His reputation as a society portraitist, meanwhile, won him an international reputation among royalty and the aristocracy, particularly in England. Generously illustrated and written by an international team of specialists on late 19th-century French art, this is the first study to focus on this fascinating figure, offering new and unpublished research into the life of a famous yet today little-known artist and revealing him at work in his studio and at the Paris Salon, teaching at the Academie Julian and amidst the many foreign students and collectors who flocked round him.

ISBN:

9782891923835 (English ed. ; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)
2891923839 (English ed. ; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)
9780300210897 (English ed. ; Hazan)
0300210892 (English ed. ; Hazan)
(French ed. ; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)
9782891923828
(French ed. ; Hazan)
9782754107792

Subject:

Benjamin-Constant, 1845-1902 Exhibitions.
Benjamin-Constant, 1845-1902 Expositions.
Benjamin-Constant, 1845-1902
Orientalism in art Exhibitions.
Painting, French 19th century Exhibitions.
History in art Exhibitions.
Peinture française 19e siècle Expositions.
Orientalisme dans l'art Expositions.
Histoire dans l'art Expositions.
Painting, French
History in art
Orientalism in art

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Bondil, Nathalie, editor.
Montiège, Samuel, editor.
Behiery, Valerie, author.
Benjamin-Constant, 1845-1902. Paintings. Selections.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, host institution.
Musée des Augustins, host institution.

Marvels and mirages of orientalism

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 289362
Call No.: BIB 231743
Status: Available