The dandy, from Van Dyck to Oscar Wilde
led by Christophe Leribault, Director of the Petit Palais
Mardi 13 septembre de 14h à 18h / Paris, Petit Palais, Auditorium
Tying in with the Oscar Wilde exhibition taking place at the Petit Palais at the end of September, this symposium brings together leading experts in the history of painting who will trace the development of the figure of the dandy in male portraiture from the 17th to the late 19th centuries.
Entry with an access way to the Biennale des Antiquaires 2016, or a coupon given during your visit of the Biennale. Limited available seats so registrations are mandatory. Please contact the organising office by phone +33 (0)1 45 22 37 82 or by email (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ).
Programme
Alexis Merle du Bourg
Historien de l’Art
Van Dyck, painter of dandies: similarities and dissimilarities
Guillaume Kientz
Curator of paintings at the Musée du Louvre
Great painters and “petimetres”. Dandyism in the Spanish portrait from Velázquez to Goya
Hugh Belsey
Senior Research Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Londres
Without the least tincture of barbarism: adopting foreign manners in late eighteenth-century England.
Philippe Bordes
Curator, Professor of Art History at University of Lyon 2
Republican elegance in male portraiture (1789–1799).
Erica Hirshler
Croll Senior curator of American Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
John Singer Sargent and the Dandy
Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond
Art Historian
Fin-de-siècle portraits: from the dandy to the aesthete.
The new symposium catalogue of Paris Tableau will be available from 13th September 2016:
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