singerie

singerie

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      (French: “monkey trick”), type of humorous picture of monkeys fashionably attired and aping human behaviour, painted by a number of French artists in the early 18th century. It originated with the French decorator and designer Jean Berain (Berain, Jean, the Elder), who included dressed figures of monkeys in many of his arabesque wall decorations. The emergence of singerie as a distinct genre, however, is usually attributed to the decorator Claude III Audran, who in 1709 painted a large picture of monkeys seated at table for the Château de Marly. Antoine Watteau experimented with the genre, as did a number of his contemporaries. Reflecting a vogue for Chinese decor, or chinoiserie, singeries executed in the third decade of the 18th century depicted monkeys attired not in Parisian but in mandarin dress and imitating Chinese manners.

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  • Singerie — is the French word for Monkey Trick . It is a type of picture of monkeys fashionably attired. The monkeys are often acting in human behaviors. Singerie was popular among French artists in the early 18th century but the term is most usually… …   Wikipedia

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  • singerie — (sin je rie) s. f. 1°   Grimaces, gestes, tours de malice. •   Chaque jour nous apercevons Que tout est plein de singerie ; Et les singes et les guenons Font une grande confrérie, le Ballet des rues, 1647, dans Rev. de l instr. publ. 22 févr.… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • SINGERIE — n. f. Cage où sont enfermés les singes. La singerie d’un jardin zoologique. Il se dit aussi d’une Décoration murale, d’une peinture, d’une tapisserie dont les singes sont les principales figures. La singerie de Chantilly. Il désigne figurément… …   Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • SINGERIE — s. f. Grimace, gestes, tours de malice. Il a fait mille singeries. Je ne prends point de plaisir à ses singeries. Il y a des enfants qui font de plaisantes singeries.   Il se dit aussi d Une imitation gauche ou ridicule. Toute cette gravité… …   Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

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  • singerie — A piece of artwork which includes monkeys instead of people …   Grandiloquent dictionary

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