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Journal Article
Delacroix’s parade
2020
Overview
The nineteenth century understood parade to refer to a small presentation announcing the actual spectacle in a theater or circus. Singers, actors, acrobats, and musicians would court the public's favor in front of the performance space. Their goal was to attract a paying audience through improvisational playacting and ostentatious addresses to people passing by. The parade thus seems to have scorned the autonomous work of art, which defined the development of drama, opera, and also painting at the time. Eugene Delacroix was clearly aware of this polemic relationship. In his early caricatures Italian Theater and Grand Opera, he refers to a parade so as to take the side of opera buffa in a dispute about this operatic genre. The tense relationship between artwork and parade also engaged Delacroix as an established artist who had made some of the most-discussed monumental works of the first half of the nineteenth century.
