Le romantisme shakespearien en peinture Entre révolution esthétique et utopie littéraire

If Shakespeare inspired intrinsically romantic work, is pictorial romanticism profoundly Shakespearean? From the Hugolian grotesque to Delécluzian theories, this essay analyzes the influence of the Elizabethan playwright on French painting in the early nineteenth century. At issue is determining how romantic artists transformed a simple literary utopia into an aesthetic revolution, overthrowing, under the aegis of the English bard, the old academic system.