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Hispagnolisme

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Oil painting depicting an old blind manholdng a green jar. A boy watches him while he inserts a can into the jar.
Lazarillo de Tormes and his blind master, Théodule Ribot, 1870s

Hispagnolisme (French: espagnolisme pronunciation) is the inordinate love of all things Spanish, a craze for which spread through French society, and much of the associated art world, in the 19th century.

Origins

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Hispagnolisme first began to emerge in the 18th century, as seen in figures like Fragonard.[1] It received a powerful impetus from Napoleon's Spanish campaigns, during the Peninsular War;[2] and took off fully in French society in and after the 1830s.[3]

Apex

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Writers like Merimee, and musicians like Bizet,[4] profited from, and also helped foster, Hispagnolisme; as did such painters as Manet,[5] with his Spanish-derived masterpiece Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe.[6]

In Britain, hispagnolisme had an influence on artists such as Sargent.[7]

Hispagnolisme was still powerful enough in Paris at the close of the century for Pablo Picasso to finance his early stays there with pictures of bullfights and Spanish peasant themes.[8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ D Sutton, Nocturne (1963) p. 21
  2. ^ "19thC Spanish fans". Archived from the original on 2021-04-13. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
  3. ^ J Richardson, A Life of Picasso (London 1991) p. 153
  4. ^ J Richardson, A Life of Picasso (London 1991) p. 153
  5. ^ K Adler, Manet (1992) p. 11
  6. ^ J Golding, Visions of the Modern (1994) p. 112
  7. ^ C Baker, The Discovery of Spain (2009) p. 29
  8. ^ J Richardson, A Life of Picasso (London 1991) p. 178 and 195

Further reading

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  • A F Gillard-Estrada, Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide (2018)
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