English summary

Het proefschrift is beschikbaar op / the dissertation can be downloaded at:

https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/3309992

Terribly repulsive but wonderfully vigorous.

Five views on Emmanuel Fremiet’s Gorilla Sculptures (1859-1888)

It is striking that nineteenth-century French sculpture has long been controversial in twentieth-century art historiography. Twentieth-century critics and art historians see France and metropolitan Paris as the cradle of modernity and contemporary art, but the medium of sculpture, ubiquitous in Paris, has often come under fire from them. The roots of this lie partly in the nineteenth century itself, as witnessed for example (meer…)

Emmanuel Fremiet, Gorille enlevant une négresse, 1859

  Emmanuel Fremiet, Gorille enlevant une femme, 1887