Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France

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Synopsis

examines how new and often contradictory ideas about friendship were enacted in the lives of

artists in the eighteenth century. It demonstrates that portraits resulted from and generated

new ideas about friendship by analyzing the creation, exchange, and display of portraits

alongside discussions of friendship in philosophical and academic discourse, exhibition

criticism, personal diaries, and correspondence. This study provides a deeper understanding of

how artists took advantage of changing conceptions of social relationships and used portraiture

to make visible new ideas about friendship that were driven by Enlightenment

thought.Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art

and CultureDistributed for the University of Delaware

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