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‖ repoussoir|rəpuswar|
[Fr., f. repousser: see repoussé a.]
An object in the foreground of a painting serving to emphasize the principal figure or scene. Also transf. and fig., and attrib.
1873H. James in Galaxy Mar. 427 Mr. Casaubon is an excellent invention: as a dusky repoussoir to the luminous figure of his wife he could not have been better imagined. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xxvi. 513 The relative motion felt by the retina is assigned to that one of its components which we look at more in itself and less as a mere repoussoir. 1906Westm. Gaz. 24 Mar. 2/2 A cool, tranquilly pleasing background is degraded to mere dulness in consequence of the gaudy gowns in front of it. Has the word repoussoir any meaning to her? 1925A. Huxley Along Road iii. 169 His exquisitely subtle use of repoussoirs and that extraordinary mastery of colour. 1936Burlington Mag. May 208/1 The strong repoussoir character of the trees on the left. 1948L. Spitzer Linguistics & Lit. Hist. v. 235 Since there had to be the Muse..she had to become the repoussoir; the personification of the Greek culture which had to be rejected. 1970T. Hilton Pre-Raphaelites v. 150 Brown's..landscapes of the 1850s..shunning the usual devices of repoussoir trees and the conventions of aerial perspective. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Mar. 261/3 The sitter's shoulders sometimes compressed into the narrowing oval of the frame, a repoussoir for the all-important face. 1977‘M. Innes’ Honeybath's Haven v. 46 The traveller who approaches Hanwell Court by the main drive has the advantage of first viewing the mansion disposed beyond a gigantic repoussoir known to art historians as the Poseidon urging the Sea-Monster to attack Laomedon. |