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The Rake's Progress. The Rake's Progress (La Carrière du libertin) est un opéra en trois actes composé par Igor Stravinsky entre 1948 et 1951 sur un livret de Wystan Hugh Auden et Chester Kallman, inspiré en partie de la série de huit peintures A Rake's Progress de William Hogarth, créé en 1951 à Venise.
Childhood and Education. William Hogarth was born on November 10 th, 1697 in London. His father, Richard, was a classical scholar, but although well-educated, was not wealthy, making a precarious living as a schoolmaster, from writing Latin and Greek textbooks and, later, as a coffee house proprietor.
A Rake's Progress was exhibited in Hogarth’s studio from December 1733 and remained in his possession until the paintings' sale by private auction on 17 February 1745 to Alderman William Beckford (d. 1770) of Fonthill, who paid £184.16s for them.
14 de oct. de 2023 · A Rake's Progress (1732-4) was a series of eight oil paintings that were preparatory works for engravings and prints portraying the downfall of the fictional Tom Rakewell. The first, The Heir, introduces Tom after the death of his miserly father, paying off Sarah Young, a maid that he'd promised to marry, while others help themselves to treasures concealed around the room.
William Hogarth FRSA was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode.
Hogarth: Place and Progress. All of the paintings and engravings in Hogarth's series will be united for the first time to examine his complex views on morality, the society and the city. The darkly satirical series of William Hogarth (1697-1764) have an enduring appeal today. Cutting through social conventions, they present with wit and humour ...
Hogarth's picture suite has been used as the basis for the English opera The Rake's Progress, with libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman and with music by Igor Stravinsky. Stravinsky had noted William Hogarth's pictures at an exhibition in Chicago in 1947, and got the idea to write an opera on the theme. See also
