Les russeries d’un peintre-voyageur au XVIIIe siècle: Le Prince vu par les critiques d’art de son temps
The Russeries of an 18th-Century Painter-Traveller: the Art of Le Prince in the Critical Writings of his Time

Author(s): Katalin Bartha-Kovács
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: russerie; exoticism; Diderot; Le Prince; Boucher; Watteau
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine some works of Jean-Baptiste Le Prince representing everyday life, and called russeries, through the Salon critics written primarily by Diderot. Adopting an aesthetic perspective, it aims to unveil the reasons for Diderot’s reserve towards the painter’s compositions, which can be traced, for the most part, to the discrepancy between the exotic subject matter and the idyllic manner of its representation according to the conventions of Rococo aesthetics.

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