Note on Baudelaire on the Sister Arts and Literary Pictorialism

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 5 to Chapter 1 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

See "L'Oeuvre et la vie d'Eugene Delacroix" (1863), in Oeuvres Completes de Charles Baudelaire, ed. Jacques Crepet (Paris: Louis Conard, 1925), II, 5: "C'est, du reste, un des diagnostics de retat spirituel de notre siecle que les arts aspirent, sinon a se suppleer l'un l'autre, du moins a se preter reciproquement." This passage is quoted in a slightly different translation by Jeffrey Meyers, Painting and the Novel (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1975), p. 1.

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