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The 1860s were years of assured literary fame for Gautier. Although he was rejected by the French Academy three times (1867, 1868, 1869), Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, the most influential critic of the day, set the seal of approval on the poet by devoting no less than three major articles in 1863 to reviews of Gautier's entire published works.
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French art critic and poet; primary exponent of the art-for-art’s sake approach. Gautier was the son of bureaucrat in the French tax office, Pierre Gautier, and his mother was mother was Antoinette-Adelaïde Concarde. In 1814 his family moved to Paris where Gautier received a formal education at the Collège Charlemagne. In 1829 he entered the studio...
Mademoiselle de Maupin: double amour. Paris: E. Renduel, 1835-1836; Tra los montes. Paris: G. Charpentier et cie, 1843 [most commonly cited edition is the 2nd, corrected ed. Voyage en Espagne. Paris: G. Charpentier, 1845]; Les Beaux-Arts en Europe, 1855. 2 vols. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1855-1856; L’art moderne. Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1856; Abécédai...
Richardson, Joanna. Théophile Gautier, his Life & Times. London: Coward-McCann 1959; Spencer, Michael C. The Art Criticism of Theophile Gautier. Geneva: Droz, 1969; Licht, Fred. Goya in Perspective. Engelwood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973, p. 170; Snell, Robert. Théophile Gautier, a Romantic Critic of the Visual Arts. New York: Oxford University ...
May 17, 2018 · During this period, Gautier began to study painting and to write poetry. In 1829, Gérard introduced Gautier to the already-famous Victor Hugo.
Saint-Beuve secured him critical acclaim, he became chairman of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1862, and in 1868 was granted the sinecure of librarian to Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, a cousin of Napoleon III, having been introduced to her salon.
The 1860s were years of assured literary fame for Gautier. Although he was rejected by the French Academy three times (1867, 1868, 1869), Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, the most influential critic of the day, set the seal of approval on the poet by devoting no less than three major articles in 1863 to reviews of Gautier's entire published works.
In 1862, Gautier's significant influence in the arts was further recognised when he was elected chairman of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts by a board that included such luminaries as Édouard Manet, Eugène Delacroix, and Gustave Doré.
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That same year he met writer Victor Hugo, who persuaded Gautier to become a writer. During the 1830’s, Gautier earned his living as a journalist. He also began his literary career by writing...
