Abstract

How to Tell a Fairy Tale With Images: Narrative Theories and French Paintings from the Early Nineteenth Century

Highlights

  • Visual narratives should not be analysed using the same criteria as developed for textual narratives

  • The article further analyses two French paintings from the early nineteenth century that represent a fairy tale by visual means alone, and which can be considered as paintings that tell a fairy tale: Petit Chaperon rouge (c. 1820) by Fleury François Richard, and Peau d’âne (1819) by Jean-Antoine Laurent

  • The printed editions of French fairy tales, fables and contes from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were so frequently illustrated with drawings or engravings, that one might even suppose that the texts were considered incomplete without an illustration

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University of Groningen

Document Version Publisher's PDF, known as Version of record. Publication date: 2010 Link to publication in University of Groningen/UMCG research database. Citation for published version (APA): Hoogvliet, M. More information can be found on the University of Groningen website: https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/self-archiving-pure/taverneamendment. Take-down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. For technical reasons the number of authors shown on this cover page is limited to 10 maximum

Margriet Hoogvliet
Narrative Theories and Images
Paintings that Tell a Fairy Tale
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