Hispagnolisme ( ) is the inordinate love of all things Spanish, a craze for which spread through French society, and much of the associated art world, in the 19th century.
Origins
Hispagnolisme first began to emerge in the 18th century, as seen in figures like Fragonard.
[D Sutton, Nocturne (1963) p. 21] It received a powerful impetus from
Napoleon's Spanish campaigns, during the
Peninsular War;
and took off fully in French society in and after the 1830s.
[J Richardson, A Life of Picasso (London 1991) p. 153]
Apex
Writers like
Merimee, and musicians like
Bizet,
[J Richardson, A Life of Picasso (London 1991) p. 153] profited from, and also helped foster, Hispagnolisme; as did such painters as
Manet,
[K Adler, Manet (1992) p. 11] with his Spanish-derived masterpiece
Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe.
[J Golding, Visions of the Modern (1994) p. 112]
In Britain, hispagnolisme had an influence on artists such as Sargent.[C Baker, The Discovery of Spain (2009) p. 29]
Hispagnolisme was still powerful enough in Paris at the close of the century for Pablo Picasso to finance his early stays there with pictures of bullfights and Spanish peasant themes.[J Richardson, A Life of Picasso (London 1991) p. 178 and 195]
See also
Further reading
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A F Gillard-Estrada, Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide (2018)
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