Resumen de Ruskin contre Sainte-Beuve: le tableau dans l'esthétique proustienne
Paintings have a number of functions in Remembrance, from characterisation to verbal display, but in the main Proust chooses those which, like the madeleine, serve to recapture the essence of lost life, a choice coherent with Ruskin's, and with modeling Elstir on the Impressionists.
