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Journal Article
Touching Watelet: L'art de peindre and the Performance of Philosophical Materialism
2023
Overview
This article examines the 1760 treatise L'art de peindre by amateur Claude-Henri Watelet in relation to eighteenth-century conceptions of the artist's touch, \"original\" prints, and genius. The work's illustrations and poems, as well as Jean-Baptiste Greuze's Portrait of Monsieur Watelet (1765), represent a performance of contemporaneous theories of combinatory imagination and sensory knowledge, particularly those by Étienne Bonnot de Condillac. Watelet's treatise, as a material object, exemplifies Condillac's theory of sensorial knowledge—most notably, the double experience of touch—through its representation of both self and external world, Watelet, and the art of painting.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
