Hispagnolisme

French aesthetic craze for Spanish things From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hispagnolisme (French: espagnolisme pronunciationⓘ) is the inordinate love of all things Spanish, a craze for which spread through French society, and much of the associated art world, in the 19th century.

Oil painting depicting an old blind manholdng a green jar. A boy watches him while he inserts a can into the jar.
Lazarillo de Tormes and his blind master, Théodule Ribot, 1870s

Origins

Hispagnolisme first began to emerge in the 18th century, as seen in figures like Fragonard.[1] It received a powerful impetus from Napoleon's Spanish campaigns, during the Peninsular War;[2] and took off fully in French society in and after the 1830s.[3]

Apex

Writers like Merimee, and musicians like Bizet,[4] profited from, and also helped foster, Hispagnolisme; as did such painters as Manet,[5] with his Spanish-derived masterpiece Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe.[6]

In Britain, hispagnolisme had an influence on artists such as Sargent.[7]

Hispagnolisme was still powerful enough in Paris at the close of the century for Pablo Picasso to finance his early stays there with pictures of bullfights and Spanish peasant themes.[8]

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