La Divine Comtesse: Photographs of the Countess de CastiglionePierre Apraxine, Xavier Demange, Virginia Oldoini Castiglione (comtessa de (), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Yale University Press, 1 jan 2000 - 192 pagina's Symbol of the Second Empire, that dazzling and artificial epoch, the mysterious Countess de Castiglione dedicated her life to a cult of personal beauty and made sensational appearances at various stages of her life, great moments that she recreated for the camera. These photographs contributed to her legend during her lifetime and were prized by collectors after her death. This book presents an extraordinary collection of the most remarkable of these photographs. The portraits, which number around 400 and are now scattered in public and private collections around the world, are here itemized and analyzed for the first time. The authors take great care to place them in their social and cultural context. |
Inhoudsopgave
Directors foreword | 6 |
Philippe de Montebello | 7 |
Acknowledgments | 8 |
Pierre Apraxine Xavier Demange | 9 |
Introduction Pierre Apraxine | 11 |
Biographical sketch and chronology | 15 |
The model and the photographer Pierre Apraxine | 47 |
A nineteenthcentury photonovel | 52 |
The posthumous life | 74 |
Françoise Heilbrun | 75 |
the photographic records of the Countess de Castiglione in Italy Michele Falzone del Barbarò | 89 |
Plates | 97 |
Catalogue | 160 |
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Photographic credits | 190 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Adolphe Braun Albumen silver print appears artist ball beauty BIBLIOGRAPHY Montesquiou Bibliothèque nationale Château de Compiègne Colmar Corgnati and Ghibaudi costume Count Robert Countess de Castiglione David Hunter David Hunter McAlpin département département des Manuscrits Disdéri dress Empress Eugénie Etruria EXHIBITION Palazzo Cavour fashion Ganna Walska Gilman Paper Company Giorgio gown hair HISTORY Estate sale Hunter McAlpin Fund Italian Italy Jacques-Émile Blanche June Loliée Lotusland Marquise Mathilde Maurice Levert Collection Mayer & Pierson Metropolitan Museum Mme Ganna Walska Modern print Montabone Montesquiou album Musée d'Orsay Museum of Art nationale de France painted in gouache painted photograph Paper Company Collection Passy picture PIERRE-LOUIS PIERSON Anonymous PIERSON Anonymous painter Pierson studio place Vendôme portraits poses Queen of Etruria Queen of Hearts Robert de Montesquiou Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac Salted paper print Second Empire shows the Countess sold Hôtel Drouot Tascher Tuileries Turin Versailles Vittorio Emanuele wearing woman