A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art

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by  Michelle Facos

A Companion to 
Nineteenth‐Century Art
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A Companion to
Nineteenth‐Century Art
Edited by
Michelle Facos
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Title: A companion to nineteenth-century art / edited by Michelle Facos.
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Contents
List of Figures ix
About the Editor xiii
Notes on Contributors xv
Series Editor’s Preface xxi
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction xxv
Michelle Facos
1 Moses Jacob Ezekiel’s Religious Liberty (1876) and
the Nineteenth‐Century Jewish American Experience 1
Samantha Baskind
2 The Lure of “Magick Land”: British Artists and Italy in
the Eighteenth Century 17
Brendan Cassidy
3 Mining the Dutch Golden Age: The Avant‐Garde Enterprise 35
Johanna Ruth Epstein
4 “The Revenge of Art on Life”: Beauty, Modernity, and Edward
Burne‐Jones’s King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 51
Andrea Wolk Rager
5 Show and Tell: Exhibition Practice in the Nineteenth Century 69
Patricia Mainardi
6 Networked: The Art Market in the Nineteenth Century 83
Pamela Fletcher and Anne Helmreich
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7 German Art Academies and their Impact on Artistic Style 103
Sabine Wieber
8 “Orientalism” in Art: The Case of John Frederick Lewis 121
Julie Codell
9 Wall to Wall: Zones of Artistic Engagement in Late Nineteenth‐Century
America 139
Melody Barnett Deusner
10 “Like a Dog, Just Looking”: Cézanne, Innocence,
and Early Phenomenological Thought in Nineteenth‐Century France 159
Nina Athanassoglou‐Kallmyer
11 Aesthetic Religion, Religious Aesthetics, and the Romantic
Quest for Epiphany 175
Cordula Grewe
12 The Wanderers and Realism in Tsarist Russia 193
Josephine Karg
13 Thomas Cole and the Domestic Landscape of the Hudson River School 209
William L. Coleman
14 Sculpture and the Public Imagination: Nineteenth‐Century
Site‐Specific Art of the Cemetery, the Garden, and the Street 225
Caterina Y. Pierre
15 Capturing Unconsciousness: The New Psychology, Hypnosis,
and the Culture of Hysteria 243
Fae Brauer
16 Impressionism and the Mirror Image 263
Martha Lucy
17 Roots: Landscapes of Nationalism in the Long Nineteenth Century 281
Neil McWilliam
18 Australian Art in the Nineteenth‐Century: Forging a National Style 299
Catherine Speck
19 Tradition and Modernity in Nineteenth‐Century Catalan Art: From
Romanticism to Picasso 315
M. Lluïsa Faxedas Brujats
20 Principle and Practice in Nineteenth‐Century Danish
Landscape Painting 335
Thor J. Mednick
Contents vii
21 Art and Multiculturalism in Estonia and Latvia, circa 1900 353
Bart Pushaw
22 Nationalism and the Myth of Hungarian Origin: Attila and Árpád 371
Terri Switzer
23 In the Service of the Nation: Forging the Identity of Polish Art
in the Nineteenth Century 391
Agnieszka Rosales Rodriguez
24 Facing Modernism: Jean‐Antoine Houdon and the Politics 
of the Portrait Bust in Eighteenth‐Century France 413
Ronit Milano
25 Identity Tourism: Studio Stagings in Nineteenth‐Century Photography 431
Patricia G. Berman
26 The Meaning of the Verb “To Be” in Painting: Manet’s Olympia 451
Andrei Molotiu
27 Cassatt’s Singular Women: Reading Le Figaro and the Older New Woman 467
Ruth E. Iskin
28 Fashion, Lithography, and Gender Instability in Romantic‐Era Paris:
A Case Study 485
Andrew Carrington Shelton
29 Racist or Hero of Social Art?: Degas, the Birth of Sociology,
and the Biopolitical Gaze 499
Michael F. Zimmermann
Index 519
List of Figures
1.1 Moses Jacob Ezekiel, Religious Liberty, 1876. 2
1.2 Moses Jacob Ezekiel, Religious Liberty, 1876. 5
1.3 Moses J. Ezekiel, Eve Hearing the Voice, 1876. 8
1.4 Priestly blessing gesture depicted on the gravestone of Rabbi
Meschullam Kohn (1739–1819). 11
2.1 Domenico Cunego, engraving after Gavin Hamilton, Achilles Dragging
the Body of Hector around the Walls of Troy, 1766. 30
2.2 Pietro Testa, Achilles Dragging the Body of Hector around the Walls of
Troy, c.1648. 31
2.3 Domenico Cunego (engraving after Gavin Hamilton), Achilles
Mourning the Death of Patroclus, 1767. 31
2.4 Sandro Botticelli, Lamentation over the Dead Christ, 1490–92. 32
3.1 Jan Luyken, Kuiper (Cooper), 1694. 41
3.2 Jean‐François Millet, Cooper Tightening Staves on a Barrel, c.1848–1850. 42
4.1 Sir Edward Coley Burne‐Jones, King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid, 1884. 52
4.2 Emery Walker, Photograph of King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid by
Edward Burne‐Jones. 53
4.3 Giovanni Bellini, Frari Altarpiece (Madonna between Saints Mark,
Benedict, Nicholas and Peter). 60
4.4 Sandro Botticelli, Venus and Mars, c.1485. 62
6.1 “Dowdeswell & Dowdeswells, Limited, 160, New Bond Street.” 87
6.2 “Intended Façade of the Grosvenor Gallery, New Bond Street—Mr.
William Thomas Sams, Architect, Doorway by Palladio.” 88
6.3 “The Grosvenor Gallery New Bond Street, London, Built for Sir
Coutts Lindsay, Bart.—Mr. William Thomas Sams, Architect.” 89
6.4 Thomas Rowlandson, Italian Picture Dealers Humbugging My Lord
Anglaise, 30 May 1812. 93
7.1 Carl Friedrich Lessing. Gorge with Ruins, 1830. 107
7.2 Johann Friedrich Vogel. Seni before the Corpse of Wallenstein (painting
by Karl Piloty). 111
x List of figures
7.3 Olaf Gulbransson. Bound by Medals! 115
7.4 Anton von Werner. Proclamation of the German Emperor in Versailles,
1882 (second version). 116
8.1 John Frederick Lewis. A Lady Receiving Visitors (The Reception), 1873. 125
8.2 John Frederick Lewis. A Frank Encampment in the Desert of Mount
Sinai. 1842—The Convent of St. Catherine in the Distance, 1856. 125
8.3 Eugène Delacroix. Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, 1834. 133
8.4 Henriette Browne. The Visit in the Harem/The Arrival in the Harem at
Constantinople, 1861. 133
9.1 “Art Gallery.” 141
9.2 Alexander H. Wyant, A New England Landscape. 143
9.3 “The Art Gallery of the Union League Club as Illuminated by the
United States Electric Lighting Company.” 149
9.4 G.A. Davis, “Work of the University Settlement Society of New York
City—An Art Exhibition in the Tenement District.” 154
11.1 Franz Pforr, Raphael, Fra Angelico and Michelangelo on a Cloud above
Rome, 1810. 178
11.2 Samuel Amsler, after Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Triumph of Religion
in the Arts, 1841. 181
11.3 Carl Hoff, after Franz Pforr, Dürer and Raphael before
the Throne of Art, 1832. 182
11.4 Sketch after Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Raphael and Dürer Kneeling
Before the Enthroned Church, 1817. 188
12.1 Vasily Grigorevich Perov, Easter Procession in a Village, 1861. 199
12.2 Ilya Yefimovich Repin, They Did Not Expect Him, 1884–1888. 200
12.3 Vasily Ivanovich Surikov, Boyarinia Morozova, 1883–1887. 204
13.1 Thomas Cole, Landscape, the Seat of Mr. Featherstonhaugh in
the Distance, 1826. 213
13.2 Thomas Cole, View of Monte Video, the Seat of Daniel Wadsworth,
Esq., 1828. 216
13.3 Thomas Cole, Gardens of the Van Rensselaer Manor House, 1840. 218
13.4 Thomas Cole, The Van Rensselaer Manor House, 1841. 219
14.1 Aimé‐Jules Dalou, Tomb of Victor Noir, 1889–1891. 229
14.2 John Quincy Adams Ward, George Washington, 1883. 234
14.3 Henry Kirke Brown, Equestrian Monument to George Washington,
1853–1856. 235
14.4 Vincenzo Vela, Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Como Days of
March 1848, 1889. 237
15.1 Pierre Aristide André Brouillet, A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière, 1887. 247
15.2 Paul Richer, Phase des contorsions (Art de cercle), 1881. 248
15.3 Albert Londe, Attaque d’hystérie chez l’homme, Guinin, Salle No. 3, 1
January 1885, twelve‐frame black and white chronophotography;
Labor des Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris. Public Domain. 254
15.4 Gustave Courtois, Le supplice de Saint Sébastien, 1895, oil on canvas,
Église Saint‐Georges, Vesoul, France; permission of Église Saint‐
Georges de Vesoul, France. 256
16.1 Mary Cassatt, Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge, 1879. Oil on
canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Bequest of Charlotte Dorrance
Wright, 1978‐1‐5. 264
List of figures xi
16.2 Edgar Degas, Madame Jeantaud in the Mirror, c.1875. 265
16.3 Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies‐Bergère, 1882. 266
16.4 Edgar Degas, At the Cafe‐Concert: The Song of the Dog, c.1876–1877. 270
17.1 Louis Haghe, Abbaye de Saint Guilhem, Languedoc, 1834. 288
17.2 Emmanuel Lansyer, Château of Pierrefonds, c.1868. 290
17.3 Camille Pissarro, The Banks of the Oise, Near Pontoise, 1876. 291
17.4 Hansi, from Mon Village. Ceux qui n’oublient pas. Images et
commentaires par l’oncle Hansi, Paris, H. Floury, 1913. 295
18.1 John William Lewin, Fish Catch and Dawes Point, Sydney Harbour, c.1813. 302
18.2 John Glover, A corroboree of natives in Mills Plains, 1832, Deddington,
Tasmania. 307
18.3 Tom Roberts, A break away!, 1891. 310
18.4 William Barak, Ceremony, 1899. 311
19.1 Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Palace of Catalan Music (Palau de la
música catalana, Barcelona), 1906–1908. 321
19.2 Santiago Rusiñol, Courtyard on l’Île de la Cité, Paris (Pawn shop), 1889. 325
19.3 Joaquim Mir, The Cathedral of the Poor, 1898. 327
19.4 Isidre Nonell, Young Gypsy Woman, 1903. 329
20.1 Johan Thomas Lundbye, A Croft at Lodskov near Vognserup Manor, 1847. 336
20.2 Ejnar Nielsen, Landscape from Gjern, 1896–1897. 337
20.3 Dankvart Dreyer, Barrow on the Island of Brandsø, c.1842. 341
20.4 René Magritte, The Human Condition, 1933. 346
21.1 Janis Rozentāls, After the Service (From the Church), 1894. 356
21.2 Nikolai Triik, Battle, 1910. 363
21.3 Bernhard Borchert, Flight, 1911. 365
22.1 Béla Iványi Grünwald, The Warlord’s Sword (A Hadúr kardja), 1890. 372
22.2 J. Allen St. John, The Hun—His mark—Blot it out with Liberty Bonds,
1917–1918. 373
22.3 Mór Than, Feast of Attila, 1870. 378
22.4 Bertalan Székely, Blood Contract (Blood Treaty), 1896. 381
23.1 Piotr Michałowski, Battle of Somosierra, c.1837. 399
23.2 Teofil Kwiatkowski, Chopin’s Polonaise—a Ball in Hôtel Lambert in Paris. 402
23.3 Maksymilian Gierymski, Insurrectionary Patrol, 1872–1873. 404
23.4 Józef Brandt, Czarniecki at Kolding, 1870. 405
23.5 Jan Matejko, Rejtan, or the Fall of Poland, 1866. 406
24.1 Jean‐Antoine Houdon, Voltaire, 1778. 414
24.2 Jean‐Antoine Houdon, Sabine Houdon Aged Ten Months, 1788. 418
24.3 Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein, Ludwig Tieck, von David d’Angers
porträtiert (David d’Angers Modeling the Bust of Ludwig Tieck), 1834. 422
24.4 Louis‐Léopold Boilly, L’atelier de Houdon (Houdon’s studio), c.1803. 423
25.1 Unknown studio photographer, Jacob Berman, c.1890. 432
25.2 Stud Marie Høeg, Self Portrait, c.1895. 433
25.3 Sojourner Truth, “I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance,” c.1864. 439
25.4 Studio of Bobette Berg and Marie Høeg, Untitled, c.1895. 445
27.1 Mary Cassatt, Reading Le Figaro, c.1878. 468
27.2 Honoré Daumier, I beg your pardon sir, if I am getting in your way…,
Le Charivari, March 8, 1844. 477
27.3 Pierre‐Auguste Renoir, Madame Eugene Fould,
née Délphine Marchand, 1880. 479