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Seductive surfaces
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the still life paintings of Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744–1818)
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Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744–1818) was one of four académiciennes admitted to the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in the late eighteenth century. As a woman artist and a still life painter, however, Vallayer-Coster has been largely neglected in art historical scholarship. Vallayer-Coster depicted a range of textures through vivid color and expressive facture, making the viewer conscious of the embodied acts of looking at, touching, smelling and tasting. My dissertation places her work in dialogue within eighteenth-century discourse on sensory experience, thus offering a new, synesthesiac framework for understanding her still life paintings.
This dissertation is organized around the materials that occupied Vallayer-Coster throughout her career. In each chapter, I focus on a few key case studies, exploring formal, material, and sensual implications of each work. My first chapter sketches Vallayer-Coster’s personal and professional life, her social and patronage networks, and the academic context of still life painting in the late eighteenth-century. The second chapter analyzes her three largest paintings, which allegorize art, nature and war, respectively. The third chapter deals with Vallayer-Coster’s representations of food, which are evocative of taste and entangled within the cultural, economic, and philosophic food systems of eighteenth century Paris. Vallayer-Coster’s paintings of guns and game, best understood within the recreational and artistic tradition of the hunt, are the subject of the fourth chapter. In the fifth chapter, I situate Vallayer-Coster’s representations of shells and minerals in the context of conchological collecting practices during this period. In the sixth and final chapter, devoted to Vallayer-Coster’s flower paintings, I probe the relationship between the perceived ‘femininity’ of Vallayer-Coster’s subject matter and painting technique
This dissertation is organized around the materials that occupied Vallayer-Coster throughout her career. In each chapter, I focus on a few key case studies, exploring formal, material, and sensual implications of each work. My first chapter sketches Vallayer-Coster’s personal and professional life, her social and patronage networks, and the academic context of still life painting in the late eighteenth-century. The second chapter analyzes her three largest paintings, which allegorize art, nature and war, respectively. The third chapter deals with Vallayer-Coster’s representations of food, which are evocative of taste and entangled within the cultural, economic, and philosophic food systems of eighteenth century Paris. Vallayer-Coster’s paintings of guns and game, best understood within the recreational and artistic tradition of the hunt, are the subject of the fourth chapter. In the fifth chapter, I situate Vallayer-Coster’s representations of shells and minerals in the context of conchological collecting practices during this period. In the sixth and final chapter, devoted to Vallayer-Coster’s flower paintings, I probe the relationship between the perceived ‘femininity’ of Vallayer-Coster’s subject matter and painting technique
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by Kelsey Brosnan
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