Item Number: 145557 Title: Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art Author: Spieth, Darius A Price: Not Available ISBN: 9789004336988 Description: Leiden: Brill, 2017. 24cm., hardcover, 514pp., 174 color illus. Contents: 1. From Eyesores to Blue Chip Art - Origins of the Parisian Marketplace for Netherlandish Painting - Art Publications and the Dissemination of Information - France as International Tastemaker for Golden Age Art After 1740 - Royal Collections and Northern Masters, 1777-1792 - The Twilight of the Auction Business, 1775-1825 - The Fate of Golden Age Art Under Terror and Inflation - The Louvre and the "Artistic Conquests" in Belgium and the Netherlands - The Post-Revolutionary Market for Netherlandish Art - The Expanding Mass Market for Copies and the Rise of the Bourgeoisie - Golden Age Art and Popular Culture - Netherlandish versus Italian Art - The Parisian Apartment - a Bourgeois Space for Art. 2. On the Art of Surviving the Revolution: Jean-Baptiste Pierre Lebrun - Art Dealer to the Ancien Régime's Elite, 1776-1789 - Painful Adjustments, 1789-1795 - Co-Conspirator of Jacques-Louis David, 1792-1794 - From The Ministry of Finance to the Louvre, 1794-1799 - A Long Good-Bye from the Louvre, 1799-1803 - A Difficult Comeback as Dealer-Expert, 1801-1804 - Deceptions of the Napoleonic Age, 1807-1813. 3. A Long Good Bye to the Palais Royal: The Northern Pictures in the Orléans Collection - The Art Collections in the Palais Royal until 1780 - Inside the Art Deal of the Century - The Netherlandish Pictures of the Palais Royal Collection - A Look Inside the Galeries De Bois. 4. Liberty's Toll on Beauty's Price - Myths and Realities of the Parisian Auction Market in the 1790s - Turnover of the Parisian Art Auction Market and its Economic Context, ca. 1775-1850 - The Evolution of Prices for Netherlandish Art in Revolutionary Paris - Bidding Wars: The Picture Trade with Great Britain - The "Guilty Industry" and Netherlandish Art. 5. Netherlandish Art in France: A History of Taste and Money across Three Centuries - Poussinists versus Rubenists - The Marquis D'argens and Academic Prejudices Against Northern Art - The Re-Evaluation of Netherlandish Aesthetics from David to Thoré - The Politicization of Nehterlandish Art in the Nineteenth Century - Class, Taste, and the First Art Price Rankings.
(Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets, 3)
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