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| Ozias Leduc |
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| Ozias Leduc |
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| Ozias Leduc |
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| Ozias Leduc |
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Jérome Bouchard Zoné gris 2005 |
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The Tempation of Saint Hillarion By Octave Tassaert
Octave Tassaert style falls somewhere between Romanticism and Realism. This “Correggio of the garret,” as Theophile Gautier called him, ended up committing suicide. He loved women, lived in poverty and his art and life were one. His favorite subjects were borrowed from the “frolicsome genre,” as he called it, or else were sentimental, mawkish genre scene. Tassaert returned more than once to other very Flaubertian subject of the temptation of San Anthony and his disciple Saint Hillarion, the anchorite from Gaza who founded Palestinian monasticism. The artist bring together iconography elements he was drawn to, counterbalancing the starving saint with the cloud of delectable female flesh. |
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