Peter Cooke is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. His most recent book is Gustave Moreau: History Painting, Spirituality and Symbolism. Nina Lübbren is Art Historian and Principal Lecturer in Film Studies, and Deputy Head of Department of English, Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

" As long as art is made for storytelling creatures, it is by telling good stories about it that we will understand it best, and this fine book contributes to that humanistic practice." - Andrei Pop, University of Chicago

• ContentsList of Figures viiNotes on Contributors xiiAcknowledgements xvIntroduction: Narrativity and (French) Painting Peter Cooke and Nina LübbrenSection IAncien Régime1 Units of Vision and Narrative Structures: Upon Reading Poussin’s Manna Claudine Mitchell2 Figures of Narration in the Context of a Painted Cycle: The North Bays of the Grande Galerie at Versailles Marianne Cojannot-Le Blanc3 The Crisis of Narration in Eighteenth-century French History Painting Susanna Caviglia4 Obscure, Capricious and Bizarre: Neoclassical Painting and the Choice of Subject Mark LedburySECTION IIRestoration and July Monarchy 5 Delacroix and ‘The Work of the Reader’ Beth S. Wright6 Narrative and History in Léopold Robert’s Arrival of the Harvesters in the Pontine Marshes Richard Wrigley7 Narrative Strategies in Paul Delaroche’s Assassination of the Duc de Guise Patricia SmythSECTION IIISecond Empire and Third Republic 8 Eloquent Objects: Gérôme, Laurens and the Art of Inanimate Narration Nina Lübbren9 Tyrannical Inopportunity: Gustave Moreau’s Anti-narrative Strategies Scott C. Allan10 Theatricality Versus Anti-Theatricality: Narrative Techniques in French History Painting (1850−1900) Pierre Sérié11 The Conflicted Status of Narrative in the Art of Paul Gauguin Belinda ThomsonSECTION IVKey Issues of Pictorial Narrative 12 Narrativity, Temporality and Allegorisation, from Poussin to Moreau Peter Cooke13 Towards a Study of Narration in Painting: The Early Modern Period Étienne JolletIndex

Peter Cooke is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. His most recent book is Gustave Moreau: History Painting, Spirituality and Symbolism. Nina Lübbren is Art Historian and Principal Lecturer in Film Studies, and Deputy Head of Department of English, Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

" As long as art is made for storytelling creatures, it is by telling good stories about it that we will understand it best, and this fine book contributes to that humanistic practice." - Andrei Pop, University of Chicago

• ContentsList of Figures viiNotes on Contributors xiiAcknowledgements xvIntroduction: Narrativity and (French) Painting Peter Cooke and Nina LübbrenSection IAncien Régime1 Units of Vision and Narrative Structures: Upon Reading Poussin’s Manna Claudine Mitchell2 Figures of Narration in the Context of a Painted Cycle: The North Bays of the Grande Galerie at Versailles Marianne Cojannot-Le Blanc3 The Crisis of Narration in Eighteenth-century French History Painting Susanna Caviglia4 Obscure, Capricious and Bizarre: Neoclassical Painting and the Choice of Subject Mark LedburySECTION IIRestoration and July Monarchy 5 Delacroix and ‘The Work of the Reader’ Beth S. Wright6 Narrative and History in Léopold Robert’s Arrival of the Harvesters in the Pontine Marshes Richard Wrigley7 Narrative Strategies in Paul Delaroche’s Assassination of the Duc de Guise Patricia SmythSECTION IIISecond Empire and Third Republic 8 Eloquent Objects: Gérôme, Laurens and the Art of Inanimate Narration Nina Lübbren9 Tyrannical Inopportunity: Gustave Moreau’s Anti-narrative Strategies Scott C. Allan10 Theatricality Versus Anti-Theatricality: Narrative Techniques in French History Painting (1850−1900) Pierre Sérié11 The Conflicted Status of Narrative in the Art of Paul Gauguin Belinda ThomsonSECTION IVKey Issues of Pictorial Narrative 12 Narrativity, Temporality and Allegorisation, from Poussin to Moreau Peter Cooke13 Towards a Study of Narration in Painting: The Early Modern Period Étienne JolletIndex

Peter Cooke is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. His most recent book is Gustave Moreau: History Painting, Spirituality and Symbolism. Nina Lübbren is Art Historian and Principal Lecturer in Film Studies, and Deputy Head of Department of English, Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

" As long as art is made for storytelling creatures, it is by telling good stories about it that we will understand it best, and this fine book contributes to that humanistic practice." - Andrei Pop, University of Chicago

• ContentsList of Figures viiNotes on Contributors xiiAcknowledgements xvIntroduction: Narrativity and (French) Painting Peter Cooke and Nina LübbrenSection IAncien Régime1 Units of Vision and Narrative Structures: Upon Reading Poussin’s Manna Claudine Mitchell2 Figures of Narration in the Context of a Painted Cycle: The North Bays of the Grande Galerie at Versailles Marianne Cojannot-Le Blanc3 The Crisis of Narration in Eighteenth-century French History Painting Susanna Caviglia4 Obscure, Capricious and Bizarre: Neoclassical Painting and the Choice of Subject Mark LedburySECTION IIRestoration and July Monarchy 5 Delacroix and ‘The Work of the Reader’ Beth S. Wright6 Narrative and History in Léopold Robert’s Arrival of the Harvesters in the Pontine Marshes Richard Wrigley7 Narrative Strategies in Paul Delaroche’s Assassination of the Duc de Guise Patricia SmythSECTION IIISecond Empire and Third Republic 8 Eloquent Objects: Gérôme, Laurens and the Art of Inanimate Narration Nina Lübbren9 Tyrannical Inopportunity: Gustave Moreau’s Anti-narrative Strategies Scott C. Allan10 Theatricality Versus Anti-Theatricality: Narrative Techniques in French History Painting (1850−1900) Pierre Sérié11 The Conflicted Status of Narrative in the Art of Paul Gauguin Belinda ThomsonSECTION IVKey Issues of Pictorial Narrative 12 Narrativity, Temporality and Allegorisation, from Poussin to Moreau Peter Cooke13 Towards a Study of Narration in Painting: The Early Modern Period Étienne JolletIndex