Enchanted Islands: Picturing the Allure of Conquest in Eighteenth-Century France

294 Pages·2018·4.92 MB·English

by  Mary D. Sheriff

Enchanted Islands

Enchanted Islands
Picturing the Allure of Conquest in
Eighteenth- Century France
MARY D. SHERIFF
The University of Chicago Press
Chicago and London
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
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ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 48310- 8 (cloth)
ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 48324- 5 (e- book)
DOI: https:// doi .org /10 .7208 /chicago /9780226483245 .001
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Sheriff, Mary D., author.
Title: Enchanted islands : picturing the allure of conquest in
eighteenth- century France / Mary D. Sheriff.
Description: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago
Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017038265 | ISBN 9780226483108 (cloth :
alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226483245 (e- book)
Subjects: LCSH: Islands in literature. | Islands in art. | French
literature— 18th century— History and criticism. | Art,
French— 18th century.
Classification: LCC PQ265 .S58 2018 | DDC 840.9/372— dc23
LC record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov /2017038265
♾ This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO
Z39.48- 1992 (Permanence of Paper).
Contents
List of Illustrations
vii
Preface, by Keith P. Luria
xi
Introduction: Called to Islands
1
1. Thinking with Islands
17
2. Domains of Enchantment
37
3. Royal Power, National Sentiment, and the Sorceress Undone
71
4. Calypso in the Regency
105
5. The Transformations of Armida
137
6. On the Persistence and Limits of the Enchanted Island
181
Notes Bibliography Index
223 249 269

Illustrations
Figures
1 Les métamorphoses d’Ovide
25
2 The Age of Gold Returns
27
3 N. Thomas, Portrait du Comte de Saint- Germain
43
4 Louis Halbou, after Johann Eleazar Schenau, Credulité sans réflexion
48
5 Nicolas de Larmessin, Portrait de F. A. de Rochechouart
52
6 Antoine Coypel, Portrait de La Voisin
53
7 Louis Ferdinand II Elle, Portrait de Madame de Montespan
54
8 C. Van Meurs, after C. Netscher, Portrait
présumé de Madame de Montespan
55
9 Charles- André Van Loo, Jason and Medea
56
10 Charles- Antoine Coypel, Destruction du palais d’Armide
57
vii
viii Illustrations
11 Frontispiece to Henri Decremps, Supplément à la magie dévoilée
63
12 Israël Silvestre the Younger and François Chaveau, Les plaisirs de l’Isle
enchantée in 1664, Première journée (frontispiece)
84
13 Silvestre and Chaveau, Les plaisirs . . .
Première journée . . . Entry of the King
87
14 Silvestre and Chaveau, Les plaisirs . . .
Première journée . . . Sidekicks of the King
89
15 Silvestre and Chaveau, Les plaisirs . . .
Première journée . . . Course de bague disputé
91
16 Silvestre and Chaveau, Les plaisirs . . .
Première journée . . . The Four Seasons
92
17 Silvestre, The Feast of “Les plaisirs de l’isle enchantée”
95
18 Silvestre, The Festival “Les plaisirs de l’isle enchantée”
97
19 Silvestre and Chaveau, Les plaisirs . . .
Troisième journée . . . Le palais de l’enchanteresse
99
20 Silvestre and Chaveau, Les plaisirs . . . Troisième journée . . . May 7, 1664
101
21 Antoine Coypel, The Alliance of Bacchus and Cupid
116
22 Antoine Watteau, Fêtes Vénitiennes
117
23 Edmé Jeaurat, after Nicolas Vleughels, Telemachus on the Isle of Calypso
120
24 Fan with scene from Vleughels, Telemachus on the Island of Calypso
123
25 Jean Dolivar, after Jean Berain, frontispiece to Armide
143
Illustrations ix
26 François Boucher, The Fountain of Love
158
27 Attributed to Boucher, Hercules and Omphale
159
28 Correggio (Antonio Allegri), Danae
160
29 Yvart fils, Chastelain, and Belin de Fontenay, Rinaldo and Armida
161
30 Robert de Cotte, fountain design for Parterre at Versailles
162
31 Antoine Watteau, The Judgment of Paris
163
32 Charles Eisen, illustration “Devil of Pope- Fig Island”
166
33 François Lemoyne, Messengers of Godefroy de Bouillon . . .
169
34 Charles- Nicolas Cochin fils, Public Audience
Granted to the Turkish Ambassador . . .
173
35 Cochin fils, Masked Ball in honor of the marriage of Louis . . .
173
36 Maurice- Quentin Delatour, Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour
175
37 Ludovicus Surugue, after Francois de Troy,
allegorical representation of Henri IV
176
38 J. Aliamet, after Charles Eisen, frontispiece
to canto 9, Voltaire, La Henriade
178
39 A. J. Duclos, after J. M. Moreau le Jeune,
Henri IV and Gabrielle d’Estrées . . .
179
40 Philibert Commerson, illustration for Voyage autour du monde
186
41 François Boucher, Shepherd Piping to a Shepherdess
192