Oh, I have to admit I do not really know if French artists worked on the Arthurian legends. Gustave Doré did not illustrate the French version of the legends, but Alfred Tennysons "Idylls of the King". But beautifully so. And the symbolist painter Jean Delville painted a "Tistan and Yseult" but he is Belgian and I think to remember he was rather influenced by Wagner (URL: http://www.illusionsgallery.com/Tristan-Idolde-Delville.html). I did not come across more French painters on Arthurian legends. I don't know if there are some works of Moreau on these legends, but I rather doubt it. And Joseph Bédiers books on Tristan ("Le roman de Tristan et Iseut" and "Le roman de Tristan par Thomas") were only published 1900/1902-05. So I really think the Arthurian legends were more a topic for British painters and Tristan more internationally after the success of Richard Wagner's opera... ;-)
yay! I loved Prince Valiant as a child too, and I still find Hal Fosters drawings to be very good. (though somewhat historically incorrect - but that is part of the fun I guess.)
Yes, the drawings of his successor were not nearly as good. And I once read an article on Prince Valiant's medievalism, and now I cannot remember clearly what it said. Have to dig it up again. Am getting old, it seems. Did you ever watch the two films they made of Prince Valiant? Awful crappy, painful to watch...
And thanks for the links to Alexandral's posts. I knew of the Hamershoi, but not of the Wrubel ones. They are stunning. I was captivated by him, when I saw him first in St. Petersburg.
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(URL: http://www.illusionsgallery.com/Tristan-Idolde-Delville.html).
I did not come across more French painters on Arthurian legends. I don't know if there are some works of Moreau on these legends, but I rather doubt it. And Joseph Bédiers books on Tristan ("Le roman de Tristan et Iseut" and "Le roman de Tristan par Thomas") were only published 1900/1902-05. So I really think the Arthurian legends were more a topic for British painters and Tristan more internationally after the success of Richard Wagner's opera... ;-)
Yes, the drawings of his successor were not nearly as good. And I once read an article on Prince Valiant's medievalism, and now I cannot remember clearly what it said. Have to dig it up again. Am getting old, it seems. Did you ever watch the two films they made of Prince Valiant? Awful crappy, painful to watch...
And thanks for the links to Alexandral's posts. I knew of the Hamershoi, but not of the Wrubel ones. They are stunning. I was captivated by him, when I saw him first in St. Petersburg.