Anne Claude de Caylus
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Anne Claude de Tubières-Grimoard de Pestels de Lévis, comte de Caylus, marquis d'Esternay, baron de Bransac (Anne Claude Philippe; 31 October, 1692 – 5 September 1765),
Born in Paris, he was the eldest son of Lieutenant-General Anne de Tubières, comte de Caylus.[2] His mother, Marthe-Marguerite de Villette de Mursay, comtesse de Caylus (1673–1729), was the daughter of vice-admiral Philippe, Marquis de Villette-Mursay. His younger brother was Charles de Tubières de Caylus, who became a naval officer and governor of Martinique.[3]
He was a cousin of
Career
While a young man, Caylus distinguished himself in the campaigns of the French army, from 1709 to 1714. After the
Caylus was an admirable and prolific etcher. He worked chiefly from drawings by Italian and French masters, including examples from the collection of Pierre Crozat and the Cabinet du Roi (the collection of the King); he also made many etchings from drawings by his friend Antoine Watteau and the sculptor Edmé Bouchardon.[4] He caused engravings to be made, at his own expense, of Bartoli's copies from ancient pictures. His publications Nouveaux sujets de peinture et de sculpture (1755) and Tableaux tirés de l'Iliade, de l'Odyssée, et de l'Enéide (1757)[2] consist of descriptions of subjects from classical literature for the inspiration of contemporary artists and their patrons.
His cultural interests were not confined to the arts of
He encouraged artists whose reputations were still in the making, and befriended the connoisseur and collector of prints and drawings Pierre-Jean Mariette when Mariette was only twenty-two, but his patronage was somewhat capricious. Diderot expressed this fact in an epigram in his Salon of 1765: "Death has delivered us from the cruellest of connoisseurs."[b] Caylus had quite another side to his character. He had a thorough acquaintance with the gayest and most disreputable sides of Parisian life, and left a number of more or less witty stories dealing with it. These were collected (Amsterdam, 1787) as his Œuvres badines complètes. The best of them is the Histoire de M. Guillaume, cocher (c. 1730).[2] His Contes, hovering between French fairy tales and oriental fantasies, between conventional charm and moral satire, have been collected and were published in 2005;[5] they were originally published as les Féeries nouvelles (1741), les Contes orientaux (1743), Cinq contes de fées (1745), plus two posthumous stories published in 1775.[6]
The Souvenirs du comte de Caylus, published in 1805, is of very doubtful authenticity. See also
Items of Caylus' collection
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Sphinx of Pharaoh Apries of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt, from the collection of Count Caylus, now at the Louvre.
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The "Cabinet des Médailles.
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Transcription of hieroglyphs on an Egyptian statue by Count Caylus, 1767
Fairy tales
Folklorist Andrew Lang published some of Comte de Caylus's tales in his book The Green Fairy Book, as part of his collection of color fairy books. These are:
- Rosanella (Rosanie)[9]
- Heart of Ice (Le prince Courtebotte et la princesse Zibeline)[10]
- Sylvain and Jocosa (Tourlou et Rirette)[11]
- The Yellow Bird (L'Oiseau Jaune) – inserted in the narrative of Sylvain and Jocosa[12]
- Fairy Gifts (Les dons)[13]
The following tales were also published by Andrew Lang, but without the proper authorship:
- Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla (La Princesse Pimprenella et Le Prince Romarin)[14]
- Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine (Le Prince Muguet et la Princesse Zaza)[15]
- Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida (Nonchalante et Papillon)[16]
British dramatist James Planché also translated the following of de Caylus's tales into English:
- Princess Minute and King Floridor (La princesse Minutie et le roi Floridor)[17]
- The Impossible Enchantment (L'enchantement impossible)[18]
- Bleuette and Coquelicot (Bleuette et Coquelicot)[19]
The tale Mignonette was also translated into English as Prince Chaffinch.[20]
Works
- Caylus. Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes, étrusques, grecques et romaines. Tome 1.
- Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes, étrusques, grecques, romaines et gauloises : Tome cinquième (1762)
Notes
- ^ Caylus website (French).
- ^ "La mort nous a délivré du plus cruel des amateurs."
References
- BnF 11895648d
- ^ a b c d e f g public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Caylus, Anne Claude de Lévis". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 590. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ Garric, Alain, "Charles DE TUBIÉRES DE CAYLUS", Geneanet (in French), retrieved 29 August 2018
- ^ Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Estampes et des Photographies, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, t. 4 (1940), pp. 53-155, lists 576 prints and suites of prints by Caylus.
- ^ Caylus 2005.
- . Retrieved 3 March 2019.
- ^ Warburton, William (1765). The Divine legation of Moses demonstrated ... London : Printed for A. Millar and J. and R. Tonson. pp. 100-115.
- ^ Caylus. Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes, étrusques, grecques et romaines. Tome 1. p. Planche XXVI.
- ^ Lang, Andrew. The Green Fairy Book. Longmans, Green. 1892. pp. 48–55.
- ^ Lang, Andrew. The Green Fairy Book. Longmans, Green. 1892. pp. 106–136.
- ^ Lang, Andrew. The Green Fairy Book. Longmans, Green. 1892. pp. 56–63.
- ^ Lang, Andrew. The Green Fairy Book. Longmans, Green. 1892. pp. 59–63.
- ^ Lang, Andrew. The Green Fairy Book. Longmans, Green. 1892. pp. 64–67.
- ^ Lang, Andrew. The Green Fairy Book. Longmans, Green. 1892. pp. 68–84.
- ^ Lang, Andrew. The Green Fairy Book. Longmans, Green. 1892. pp. 85–99.
- ^ Lang, Andrew. The Green Fairy Book. Longmans, Green. 1892. pp. 238–261.
- ^ Planché, J. R. (James Robinson), et al.. Four And Twenty Fairy Tales: Selected From Those of Perrault And Other Popular Writers. London: G. Routledge & Co., 1858. pp. 329–335. [1]
- ^ Planché, J. R. (James Robinson), et al.. Four And Twenty Fairy Tales: Selected From Those of Perrault And Other Popular Writers. London: G. Routledge & Co., 1858. pp. 336–357. [2]
- ^ Planché, J. R. (James Robinson), et al.. Four And Twenty Fairy Tales: Selected From Those of Perrault And Other Popular Writers. London: G. Routledge & Co., 1858. pp. 358–374. [3]
- ^ Montalba, Anthony Reubens. Fairy Tales From All Nations. New York: Harper, 1850. pp. 73–104. [4]
- Caylus, Anne (2005). Boch, Julie (ed.). Contes (in French). Paris: Champion. ISBN 978-2-7453-1198-6.
- Three of his essays were anthologized in Charles Harrison, et al., 2001. Art In Theory 1648-1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (Blackwell): "On Drawings" (1732), "The Life of Antoine Watteau" (1748), and "On Composition" (1750).
External links
Sources
- Leonardo da Vinci: anatomical drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, exhibition catalog fully online as PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Caylus's da Vinci collection (see index)
- Contes orientaux / Oriental Tales at HathiTrust