The monomanies series by Géricault
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| *''Monomanie du commandement militaire '' (Eng: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:GericaultMonomaniacOfMilitaryCommander.jpg Military obsessive] | *''Monomanie du commandement militaire '' (Eng: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:GericaultMonomaniacOfMilitaryCommander.jpg Military obsessive] | ||
| *''Monomanie du vol des enfants'' [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jahsonic/548394161/ Compulsive Child Kidnapping] | *''Monomanie du vol des enfants'' [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jahsonic/548394161/ Compulsive Child Kidnapping] | ||
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| - | :Vanaf 1822 schilderde Géricault in een jaar tijd vijf realistische olieverfportretten van patiënten van Georget. Volgens [[Charles Clement]], schrijver van het boek Géricault. ''[[Etude Bibliographique et critique]]'' uit 1867, waren er oorspronkelijk tien schilderijen die Géricault tussen 1821 en 1824 voor Georget schilderde. De vijf gevonden portretten van geesteszieken zijn van drie mannen en twee vrouwen uit de instelling waar Georget werkte. De patiënten zijn frontaal afgebeeld en zijn gekleed in hun eigen kledij. Géricault schilderde hen zonder achtergrond of accessoires en zonder theatrale expressies of gebaren. Hij zag de patiënten als individuen en zo heeft hij ze ook afgebeeld. De portretten tonen niet direct dat het geesteszieken zijn. De titels maken dit echter wel duidelijk: | ||
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| - | *1 Monomanie du commandement militaire (waanzin gericht op het leger) | ||
| - | *2 Monomanie du vol des enfants (kinderlokker) | ||
| - | *3 Monomanie du vol (kleptomaan) | ||
| - | *4 Monomanie du jeu (gokverslaafde) | ||
| - | *5 Monomanie de l’envie (waanzin gericht op jaloezie) | ||
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| - | === Bibliography === | ||
| - | *[http://arts.guardian.co.uk/portrait/story/0,,739742,00.html Man with the 'Monomania' of Child Kidnapping, Theodore Géricault] | ||
| ==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
| - | * "De la [[folie]], Textes choisis et présentés par J. Postel, Ed.: Privat, Coll.: [[Rhadamanthe]], 1972 (1999, Ed.: L'Harmattan, ISBN 2738483445 | + | *''[[Géricault. Étude biographique et critique avec le catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre du maître]]'' of 1867 |
| + | * "[[De la folie]], Textes choisis et présentés par J. Postel, Ed.: Privat, Coll.: [[Rhadamanthe]], 1972 (1999, Ed.: L'Harmattan, ISBN 2738483445 | ||
| + | *[http://arts.guardian.co.uk/portrait/story/0,,739742,00.html Man with the 'Monomania' of Child Kidnapping, Theodore Géricault] | ||
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The Monomaniacs (French: monomanies) is a series of realistic oil portraits by Théodore Géricault produced between 1821 and 1824 of the patients of Étienne-Jean Georget, head physician at the Salpêtrière Parisian psychiatric ward. The paintings were commissioned by Georget so that his students could study the physical traits of these "monomaniacs", in a sort of scientific realism that parallels the literary realism
According to Charles Clément, author of Géricault. Étude biographique et critique avec le catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre du maître of 1867, the ten paintings were executed between 1821 and 1824. The five portraits of mental illness consist of three men and two women. The patients are depicted frontally and wore their own clothes. Géricault painted them on an even backdrop without accessories nor theatrical expressions or gestures. He saw the patients as individuals and as such he portrayed them. The portraits do not show immediately that they are mentally ill are. The titles make it clear, however.
The surviving paintings are:
- La monomanie de l'envie (Eng: Portrait of a Woman Suffering from Obsessive Envy)
- La monomanie du jeu Monomaniac of Gambling
- La monomanie du vol (Eng: A Kleptomaniac)
- Monomanie du commandement militaire (Eng: Military obsessive
- Monomanie du vol des enfants Compulsive Child Kidnapping
Bibliography
- Géricault. Étude biographique et critique avec le catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre du maître of 1867
- "De la folie, Textes choisis et présentés par J. Postel, Ed.: Privat, Coll.: Rhadamanthe, 1972 (1999, Ed.: L'Harmattan, ISBN 2738483445
- Man with the 'Monomania' of Child Kidnapping, Theodore Géricault
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