"Taught by Love": The Origin of Painting Again

• Autores: Frances Muecke
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 81, Nº 2, 1999, págs. 297-302
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article presents a neglected early example of the visual representation of the legend of the Origin of Painting. As the frontispiece of the second English edition of Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy’s The Art of Painting (1716, republished 1750, 1769), it would have been very well known to English artists. There are good reasons for thinking that this example depends on that by François Chauveau, after Charles Le Brun, which was created specifically to accompany Charles Perrault’s poetic version of La peinture (Paris, 1668). Perrault perhaps originated, from a hint in Junius, the detail of Love guiding the Corinthian Maid’s drawing.