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Le Paradou (after Emile Zola), 1883

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 97.6 x 130.7 cm
  • Inv. 1924-AB

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The French painter Joseph Edouard Dantan worked in the academic tradition. His contemporaries praised his mastery of trompe l’oeil and stereoscopic photography. In addition to historical and mythological scenes, he is best known for his depictions of artists’ studios with naked life models that recall, at times, the workshop that belonged to his sculptor father. ‘Le Paradou’ is the name of the paradisiacal garden in the novel La faute de l’Abbé Mouret by Emile Zola. It is in this garden that the young priest Mouret loses his innocence when seduced by the charming and pure Albine. Dantan’s painting depicts the tentative beginnings of the temptation when the forces of nature, at their peak during summer, have as much power as the charms of the young girl.

Artist

Joseph Édouard Dantan RKD
Paris 1848 - Villerville 1897
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Title Le Paradou (after Emile Zola)
Date 1883
Period 19th century
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signature and year below on the tripod's leg: E - DANTAN / 1893
inscription and signature reverse, on the stretcher: "LE PARADOU" E. DANTAN / LA FAUTE DE L'ABBÉ MOURET / EMILE ZOLA
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1924-AB
Acquisition credit gift
Claes-Duparcq (coll.)
Ghent
1924
Current whereabouts Work on display
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/982/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300189808 figures (representations) AAT
300055865 Symbolism (artistic concept) AAT
25H landscapes Iconclass
Keywords Iconclass 11P3121 priest (Roman Catholic) Iconclass
25G11 groups of trees Iconclass
25G3 trees Iconclass
25G31 shrubs Iconclass
25G41 flowers Iconclass
25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass
25H15 forest, wood Iconclass
25H153 bush, shrubs ~ forest Iconclass
31A231 standing figure Iconclass
31AA231 standing figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass
31D120 Youth, Adolescence, 'Iuventus'; 'Adolescenza', 'Gioventu' (Ripa) Iconclass
31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass
41A6 garden Iconclass
41A641 statues, sculptures in garden Iconclass
41A6711 flowers in a vase Iconclass
41A7111 tripod Iconclass
56F1 Desire; 'Desiderio' (Ripa) Iconclass
56F13 (Feeling of) Attraction Iconclass
56F2518 'Passione d'amore' (Ripa) Iconclass
71A321 Garden of Eden, paradise Iconclass
82A(SERGE MOURET) male literary characters (SERGE MOURET) Iconclass
82AA(ALBINE) female literary characters (ALBINE) Iconclass
83(ZOLA, La Faute de l'abbé Mouret) (scenes from) specific works of literature (ZOLA, La Faute de l'abbé Mouret) Iconclass
School / Style realism (artistic form of expression) AAT
Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 52)
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 123 (ill.))
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