Catalogue
Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher :
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN :
Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882
Author : Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library
Publisher :
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 30,60 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
ISBN :
Book Description
The Purchase of the Past
Author : Tom Stammers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1108807224
Book Description
Offering a broad and vivid survey of the culture of collecting from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, The Purchase of the Past explores how material things became a central means of accessing and imagining the past in nineteenth-century France. By subverting the monarchical establishment, the French Revolution not only heralded the dawn of the museum age, it also threw an unprecedented quantity of artworks into commercial circulation, allowing private individuals to pose as custodians and saviours of the endangered cultural inheritance. Through their common itineraries, erudition and sociability, an early generation of scavengers established their own form of 'private patrimony', independent from state control. Over a century of Parisian history, Tom Stammers explores collectors' investments – not just financial but also emotional and imaginative – in historical artefacts, as well as their uncomfortable relationship with public institutions. In so doing, he argues that private collections were a critical site for salvaging and interpreting the past in a post-revolutionary society, accelerating but also complicating the development of a shared national heritage.
Delicious Decadence ?The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth-Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century
Author : Monica Preti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351569910
Book Description
The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines, and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such, scholars will welcome this collection of essays by internationally recognised experts that gathers together for the first time varied and stimulating perspectives on the nineteenth-century collector and art market for French eighteenth-century art, and ultimately the formation of collections that form part of such august institutions as the Louvre and the National Gallery in London. The book is the culmination of a successful conference organised jointly between the Wallace Collection and the Louvre, on the occasion of the acclaimed exhibition Masterpieces from the Louvre: The Collection of Louis La Caze. Exploring themes relating to collectors, critics, markets and museums from France, England and Germany, the volume will appeal to academics and students alike, and become essential reading on any course that deals with the history of collecting, the history of taste and the nineteenth-century craze for the perceived douceur de vivre of eighteenth-century France. It also provides valuable insight into the history of the art markets and the formation of museums.
Catalogue D'Une Superbe Collection de Dessins Anciens de L'Ecole Francaise Formant Le Cabinet
Author : Eugene Feral
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 2016-11
Category :
ISBN : 9782014460414
Book Description
Catalogue d'une superbe collection de dessins anciens de l'ecole francaise formant le cabinet d'un amateur [Richard Lion], dont la vente aura lieu Hotel Drouot... le samedi 3 avril 1886... / Me Paul Chevallier, commissaire-priseur; [experts] M. E. Feral, peintre, 54 faubourg Montmartre, M. J. Bouillon, m.d d'estampes, succ.r de Clement, 3 rue des Saint-Peres Date de l'edition originale: 1886 [Vente. Art. 1886-04-03. Paris][Collection. Art. Lion, Richard. 1886]Reference bibliographique: Lugt, 45599Appartient a l'ensemble documentaire: VenteEST2 Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF. Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique. En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles. Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr
Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art
Author : Darius A. Spieth
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004276750
Book Description
Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings were aesthetic, intellectual, and economic touchstones in the Parisian art world of the Revolutionary era, but their importance within this framework, while frequently acknowledged, never attracted much subsequent attention. Darius A. Spieth’s inquiry into Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art reveals the dominance of “Golden Age” pictures in the artistic discourse and sales transactions before, during, and after the French Revolution. A broadly based statistical investigation, undertaken as part of this study, shows that the upheaval reduced prices for Netherlandish paintings by about 55% compared to the Old Regime, and that it took until after the July Revolution of 1830 for art prices to return where they stood before 1789.
Catalogue
Author : Maggs Bros
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
ISBN :
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Catalogue of Works on the Fine Arts Offered at the Net Prices Affixed
Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
Grand Design
Author : Elizabeth A. H. Cleland
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 21,46 MB
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300208057
Book Description
Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502 – 1550) was renowned throughout Renaissance Europe as a draftsman, painter, and publisher of architectural treatises. The magnificent tapestries he designed were acquired by the wealthiest clients of the day, up to and including rulers such as Emperor Charles V, King Francis I of France, King Henry VIII of England, and Grand Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici of Tuscany. At the same time, Coecke was remarkable not only for the complexity and unparalleled quality of his tapestries, but also for his fluency in various media: this lavishly illustrated volume examines the full range of his work, from tapestry and stained-glass window designs to panel paintings, prints, drawings, and architectural treatises. Though only forty-eight when he died, Coecke was one of the greatest Netherlandish artists of the sixteenth century. His paintings and drawings, initially wrought in the style of the Antwerp Mannerists, evolved through his enthusiastic response to Italian Renaissance design, and influenced generations of artists in his wake. This comprehensive study explores Coecke’s stylistic development, as well as his substantial contribution to the body of great Renaissance art in Flanders. Featuring twenty monumental tapestries, along with many of their cartoons and preparatory sketches, plus seven paintings, additional drawings, and printed matter—many of them newly photographed for this volume—Grand Design provides a thorough reappraisal of Coecke’s work, amply justifying the high regard in which Coecke’s work was held and its wide dissemination long after his death.
15th-18th Century French Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Drawing
ISBN : 0870994638
