L’hypopeinture greuzienne et ses palimpsestes narratifs au XVIIIe siècle

Abstract

In the 18th century, the paintings of Greuze had much success. The literature took against these paintings. It transposed them in narrative texts. Diderot and Aubert, described paintings of Greuze by using the literary kind of the moral tale. Thus, they respected moral spirit of the painting of Greuze. But when paintings of Greuze were transposed in the novels, this moral spirit had been perverted : the novels respected stating of Greuze, but they used it to produce a different statement.

Keywords

• paintings of Greuze
• writings on art of Diderot
• moral tale
• literary transposition