《流亡中的艺术家》是第一本对安妮Marguérite Joséphine Henriette Rouillé de Marigny, Hyde de Neuville男爵夫人(1771-1849)的生活和工作进行深入的、插图式的探索,她在1807年作为一名难民从拿破仑统治下的法国来到美国,并开始了一段非凡的发现之旅。她那无与伦比的、引人入胜的水彩画和绘画作品——在7个国家和公海上游历了200多幅,与以前未发表过的文件和信件一起在这里出版——为美利坚共和国早期及其种族多元化人口提供了宝贵的历史视觉记录。从这个令人兴奋的材料中,亨利埃特以一个国际化的艺术家的身份出现,她在大西洋两岸的政治和社会圈子中发挥了她的影响力,勇敢地穿越欧洲大陆,无人陪同,乞求拿破仑放过她丈夫的生命。
Artist in Exile is the first in-depth, illustrated exploration of the life and work of Anne Marguérite Joséphine Henriette Rouillé de Marigny, Baroness Hyde de Neuville (1771–1849), who arrived in America in 1807 as a refugee from Napoleonic France and embarked on an extraordinary journey of discovery. Her unparalleled, beguiling, watercolors and drawings―over 200, made while traveling through seven countries and on the high seas, published here together with previously unpublished documents and letters―provide an invaluable historical visual record of the early years of the American Republic and its racially diverse population. From this exciting material Henriette emerges as a cosmopolitan artist who exerted her influence in political and social circles on both sides of the Atlantic, courageously traversing the European continent, unescorted, to beg Napoleon to spare her husband’s life.
Neuville’s status as a woman, and an outsider, made her a particularly keen and sympathetic observer of individuals from a range of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. She drew the earliest ethnographically correct images of indigenous Americans, together with vistas predating the works of other traveler-artists, and long-vanished buildings. Although she arrived in America as an outcast, by the end
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