{"id":2167,"date":"2019-02-21T16:16:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T15:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/charles-auguste-edelmann\/"},"modified":"2019-05-07T11:38:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T09:38:02","slug":"charles-auguste-edelmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/fr\/charles-auguste-edelmann\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles-Auguste Edelmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a brilliant example of Charles-Auguste Edelmann\u2019s interest for nudes and eroticism, through classical themes and scenes. Formed at the <em>\u00c9cole des Beaux Arts de Paris<\/em> in Jean-L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me and Ferdinand Humbert\u2019s studios, at the turn of the finishing 19<sup>th<\/sup> c., the artist started his career with scenes of misery and poverty. Later, he focused his attention on Parisian life, depicting mostly women and giving a great attention to nudes. According Francis de Miomandre, it was only then that he found his proper style: \u201c&nbsp;(\u2026) <em>il ne pouvait s\u2019emp\u00eacher de s\u2019int\u00e9resser surtout \u00e0 ce c\u00f4t\u00e9 imm\u00e9diat, personnel de leur plastique : l\u2019\u00e9piderme, les jeux de la lumi\u00e8re sur lui, et ces autres jeux de l\u2019organisme, qui le font vivre, lui impriment des formes, d\u00e9terminant ses mouvements\u201d<\/em>. His works were mostly related to women in familiar situations, lying on a bed, or standing at their dressing table, and to a few mythological subjects relating to Bacchic themes, as for instance <em>Sc\u00e8ne Bacchique<\/em> and <em>Femme dans un hamac entour\u00e9e de faunes musiciens<\/em>, in the collection of Fran\u00e7oise et Jacques Subes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Representing the erotic encounter of Sparta\u2019s queen, Leda, with Zeus in the form of a swan, Edelmann represents Leda grabbing of the swan\u2019s head, in an ecstatic attitude, with her neck exposed and her legs opened. With the woman lying underneath the swan, the composition follows Michelangelo\u2019s path. In France, this model had been reinterpreted by L\u00e9on Riesener in 1840, with a painting, <em>L\u00e9da et le cygne<\/em> (Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts, Rouen), that inspired a lot of painters at the end of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, such as Renoir and C\u00e9zanne. In the perspective of Edelmann\u2019s production, this drawing could also be associated to his illustrations for erotic literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a brilliant example of Charles-Auguste Edelmann\u2019s interest for nudes and eroticism, through classical themes and scenes. Formed at the \u00c9cole des Beaux Arts de Paris in Jean-L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me and Ferdinand Humbert\u2019s studios, at the turn of the finishing 19th c., the artist started his career with scenes of misery and poverty. Later, he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/fr\/charles-auguste-edelmann\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u00ab\u00a0Charles-Auguste Edelmann\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3069,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/3069\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3072\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg-fineart.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}