Revolutionary Paris and the market for Netherlandish art

Author(s)

• Spieth, Darius Alexander
• Fumaroli, Marc

Bibliographic Information

Revolutionary Paris and the market for Netherlandish art

by Darius A. Spieth ; with a foreword by Marc Fumaroli

（Studies in the history of collecting & art markets, v. 3）

Brill, c2018

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-467) and index

Description and Table of Contents

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Foreword Marc Fumaroli List of Illustrations A Note on Currencies 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 Regime'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 Orleans 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 Thore The Politicization of Nehterlandish Art in the Nineteenth Century Class, Taste, and the First Art Price Rankings Appendix Bibliography Photograph Credits Index

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Details

• NCID: BB26735557
• ISBN:
  • 9789004336988
• LCCN: 2017032460
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: xxi, 513 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : N8600
  • DC23 : 700.944/36109033
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Art -- France -- Paris -- Marketing -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Art -- France -- Paris -- Marketing -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Art dealers -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Art dealers -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Painting -- Economic aspects -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Painting -- Economic aspects -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Painting, Dutch -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Painting, Flemish -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Paris (France) -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Paris (France) -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB22848201