Rubens' material reality culminates in the tableau which he named Het Pelsken (Flemish for 'The little Fur,' known also as La Pelisse). Of his vast oeuvre it is the most frequently cited work, described by one spectator as an "oil painting of a subject quite unusual...a beautiful woman naked beneath her dark fur." 1 Among art historians the tableau has been the subject of debate as to its 'meaning,' especially since the life-size image does not include narrative paraphernalia that would allow mythological interpretations. But as one scholar wrote, "most are relieved that the work was never meant to be sold."2 / This dissertation's trajectory is different. It points to Rubens' late style tableaux, of which Het Pelsken is one, as items painted in an exquisite technique effecting (bodily) presence, and conceived as commodities destined for circulation. Thus the works are heavily invested by producer(s) and buyer(s). Painted in a sophisticated allegorical language that simultaneously defies easy (narrative) access and yet keeps viewers continuously spellbound, Het Pelsken is being reframed together with some of Rubens' other paintings to establish a dialogue with today's audience. This study analyzes the allegorical paradigm by way of Walter Benjamin's dialectics in order to locate levels of truth---which are of relevance to current viewers---and also probes the forces that generate such an overt and repeated display of the feminine body. In so doing, the study also spotlights neo-allegorists, who in their' more recent art practice reconnect with Rubens and disconnect with some compositional and technical strategies of the Baroque master's paintings. These artists include contemporaries Robert Rauschenberg, Peter Dressler and Jean-Luc Godard. / 1Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, please see Chapter One for more of his commentary. 2Julius Held's research and response is also taken up in Chapter One.

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Nous envisageons particulièrement la période caravagesque du peintre anversois Gérard Seghers (1591-1651) qui est la plus riche et la plus commentée dans son oeuvre. Nous ajoutons des tableaux caravagesques et nous en retirons d'autres du catalogue raisonné de l'artiste publié par Dorothea Bieneck en 1992. Nous traitons ainsi des thématiques caravagesques importantes du Reniement de saint Pierre et de la Crucifixion de saint Pierre mais aussi du thème plus commun mais très populaire, de la Sainte Famille. Nous étudions également les rapports entre l'oeuvre de Seghers et celle des peintres caravagesques contemporains présents à Rome lors du voyage de Seghers dans cette ville. Nous précisons ici la chronologie du voyage de Seghers à Rome et surtout celle de son voyage en Espagne sur lequel nous avions peu de renseignements jusqu'ici.<p>En annexe, nous établissons le catalogue de 78 tableaux, inédits ou publiés, réapparus depuis la publication de Dorothea Bieneck en 1992. / Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished