See Sharp: Discord across Portraits of the Mozart Family Attributed to Carmontelle

IF 0.1 3区文学 0 LITERATURE, ROMANCE

NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.5325/ninecentstud.33.0092

Margot Bernstein

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Louis Carrogis called Carmontelle was a French amateur draftsman whose association with the royal Orléans court in the final decades of the ancien régime afforded him direct access to Enlightenment luminaries, celebrities, and elites. Carmontelle created a well-known triple-portrait drawing of Leopold, Maria Anna, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during the family’s 1763–64 stay in France. Four museums—two in France and two in the United Kingdom—claim to count autograph versions of this triple portrait (in other words, in Carmontelle’s own hand) among their collections. Close examination of these triple portraits—in the collections of the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, the Musée Condé in Chantilly, the British Museum in London, and Castle Howard in Yorkshire—reveals, however, that three of these four works are not autograph drawings by Carmontelle. In fact, one of these three sheets is not a drawing at all. This essay examines the origins of these misattributions and some of the reasons for their perpetuation. More broadly, it cautions against accepting prestigious provenances at face value and demonstrates the value of close, prolonged looking and careful comparative analysis.

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参见夏普:卡蒙泰尔创作的莫扎特家族肖像画中的不和谐

路易斯·卡罗吉(Louis Carrogis，又名Carmontelle)是一位法国业余制图员，他在古代宇航制度的最后几十年里与皇家奥尔姆萨法庭有了联系，这使他能够直接接触启蒙运动的杰出人物、名人和精英。1763年至1764年，卡蒙泰尔一家在法国逗留期间，为利奥波德、玛丽亚·安娜和沃尔夫冈·阿玛德乌斯·莫扎特创作了一幅著名的三人肖像画。四家博物馆——两家在法国，两家在英国——声称在他们的收藏中有这幅三人肖像的亲笔签名版本(换句话说，是卡蒙泰尔的亲笔签名)。然而，仔细研究这三幅肖像画——分别收藏于巴黎的muse Carnavalet、尚蒂伊的muse condaise、伦敦的大英博物馆和约克郡的霍华德城堡——就会发现，这四幅画中有三幅不是Carmontelle的亲笔签名画。事实上，这三张纸中有一张根本就不是画。这篇文章探讨了这些错误归因的起源和它们永存的一些原因。更广泛地说，它告诫人们不要从表面上接受著名的产地，并展示了仔细、长时间观察和仔细比较分析的价值。

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期刊介绍： Nineteenth-Century French Studies provides scholars and students with the opportunity to examine new trends, review promising research findings, and become better acquainted with professional developments in the field. Scholarly articles on all aspects of nineteenth-century French literature and criticism are invited. Published articles are peer reviewed to ensure scholarly integrity. This journal has an extensive book review section covering a variety of disciplines. Nineteenth-Century French Studies is published twice a year in two double issues, fall/winter and spring/summer.