Marilyn R Brown: 1 book
The Gamin de Paris in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
Delacroix, Hugo, and the French Social Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
The revolutionary boy at the barricades was memorably envisioned in Eugène Delacroix’s painting Liberty Leading the People (1830) and Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables (1862). Over the course of the nineteenth century, images of the Paris urchin entered the collective social imaginary as cultural...
