Les peintres du XVIIIe siècle dans le duché de Luxembourg : une étude socioprofessionnelle et iconographique
(2023)
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- Authors
- Supervisors
- Dekoninck, Ralph
- Abstract
- (en) When one visits the country churches of the two Luxembourgs, one quickly realizes that there is an abundant and largely unknown pictorial heritage dating from the Enlightenment. At a time when some local authorities are trying to restore access to religious buildings and to reappropriate their artistic heritage, it seemed important to us to study in depth this cross-border pictorial production, which was mainly produced in the workshops formerly located in the Duchy of Luxembourg. Based mainly on archives and a multitude of works found in the field, this thesis has set itself the task, in the first instance, of giving an account of the way in which people lived as painters in Ancien Régime Luxembourg. In order to answer this question, we have focused on the social origin, the apprenticeship, the career and the socio-professional profile of the surveyed artists. Our research allows us to answer different questions: Who are these painters? Where did they learn their trade? Do they come from abroad? If so, why did they settle in Luxembourg? What were their favorite subjects? Did they master other artistic techniques? In a second phase, the thesis focused on civil, private and ecclesiastical commissions. The works presented and analyzed were produced between 1701 and 1800 by Luxembourgers or by a foreign painter who obtained a commission financed by a client residing in the duchy. The iconographic examination of this regional production tends to prove that the artists all used engraved models to secure their commissions. This mode of operation leads us to take a new look at the ways in which painted works were created in the provincial households. The benefits of this doctoral work are, on the one hand, to provide a synthesis of the life of the painters of the former duchy and an inventory of their activities and, on the other hand, to propose a less reductive vision and keys to reading Luxembourg's pictorial works of the eighteenth century.
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Carême, H. (2023). Les peintres du XVIIIe siècle dans le duché de Luxembourg : une étude socioprofessionnelle et iconographique. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/102344