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2 février 2018
- handle: 10670/1.yinr2t
- isbn: 9782878540741
- eisbn: 9782878548662
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Peter De Voogd, « Generation in William Hogarth’s Marriage-a-la-mode », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.yinr2t
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At the beginning of Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey its narrator Yorick says that “they order this matter better in France” (what the matter is, is never explained, but everybody seems to agree) — and William Hogarth evidently thought so too. When he wanted his most ambitious series of what he called his “modem moral subjects” engraved (it had been painted in 1743), he went to Paris to find the engravers to do it. He engaged Louis Gérard Scotin, Bernard Baron and Simon François Ravene...