Belgium. The van Eycks and Memlings.
Marguerite Waknine| N° d'inventaire | 23718 |
| Format | 16 x 21 |
| Détails | 48 p., notebook. |
| Publication | Angoulême, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791094565544 |
Eugène Fromentin (1820-1876) achieved the feat of being both a painter and a writer. Indeed, one can still read today: Dominique, this remarkable autobiographical novel, inspired by a teenage love and dedicated to George Sand, as one can still in many French museums (Le Louvre, Orsay, Chantilly, La Rochelle…) come across his pictorial work which classifies him among the orientalist movement and which Eugène Fromentin undertook after studying art in Paris and a first trip to Algeria (there would be three in all). This already should lead us to consider Fromentin as a great traveler whose beautiful escapades would be the subject of several stories with evocative titles: A Summer in the Sahara, in 1856, and A Year in the Sahel, two years later. The adventurer is therefore a true explorer, still able to undertake, at the end of his life, a final journey, in Belgium and Holland this time, to meet the greatest painters, such as Hals, Rubens, Rembrandt, Ruysdael… A final journey therefore, from which Fromentin will be able to draw a masterful treatise on aesthetics, entitled: The Masters of Yesteryear. A journey, a treatise, whose last episode or last chapter (Belgium - The van Eycks and Memlings) is an invitation to the discovery and contemplation of what grace and splendor there can be in the greatest masters. In this case, two masterpieces of Flemish primitive art:
The altarpiece of The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, by Jan and Hubert van Eyck, and The Triptych of the Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, by Hans Memling.
Eugène Fromentin (1820-1876) achieved the feat of being both a painter and a writer. Indeed, one can still read today: Dominique, this remarkable autobiographical novel, inspired by a teenage love and dedicated to George Sand, as one can still in many French museums (Le Louvre, Orsay, Chantilly, La Rochelle…) come across his pictorial work which classifies him among the orientalist movement and which Eugène Fromentin undertook after studying art in Paris and a first trip to Algeria (there would be three in all). This already should lead us to consider Fromentin as a great traveler whose beautiful escapades would be the subject of several stories with evocative titles: A Summer in the Sahara, in 1856, and A Year in the Sahel, two years later. The adventurer is therefore a true explorer, still able to undertake, at the end of his life, a final journey, in Belgium and Holland this time, to meet the greatest painters, such as Hals, Rubens, Rembrandt, Ruysdael… A final journey therefore, from which Fromentin will be able to draw a masterful treatise on aesthetics, entitled: The Masters of Yesteryear. A journey, a treatise, whose last episode or last chapter (Belgium - The van Eycks and Memlings) is an invitation to the discovery and contemplation of what grace and splendor there can be in the greatest masters. In this case, two masterpieces of Flemish primitive art:
The altarpiece of The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, by Jan and Hubert van Eyck, and The Triptych of the Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, by Hans Memling.