The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt : : Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France / / Alison McQueen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: McQueen, Alison,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Rembrandt
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 p.) :; Richly illustrated
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Reinventing the Biography, Creating the Myth --; Plates --; Chapter 2. Politicizing Rembrandt --; Chapter 3. Picturing the Myth --; Chapter 4. Rembrandt the “Master” Printmaker --; Chapter 5. The Rembrandt Strategy --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Appendix --; Bibliography --; Illustration Acknowledgements --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048505234; 9783110700671; 9783111023786; 9783110662788
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048505234?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alison McQueen.

Rembrandt's life and art had an almost mythic resonance in nineteenth-century France with artists, critics, and collectors alike using his artistic persona both as a benchmark and as justification for their own goals. This first in-depth study of the traditional critical reception of Rembrandt reveals the preoccupation with his perceived "authenticity," "naturalism," and "naiveté," demonstrating how the artist became an ancestral figure, a talisman with whom others aligned themselves to increase the value of their own work. And in a concluding chapter, the author looks at the play Rembrandt, staged in Paris in 1898, whose production and advertising are a testament to the enduring power of the artist's myth.