Author: Hôtel DrouotPublisher:
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Languages : fr
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Book Description
Objets d'art, d'ameublement et de curiositʹe, tableaux et gravures
Author: Hôtel DrouotCatalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Objets d'art et d'ameublement, tableaux, dessins, gravures
Author: Hôtel DrouotThe Purchase of the Past
Author: Tom StammersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108807224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
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.
Gravures, tableaux, ʹetains anciens, objets d'art et d'ameublement anciens et de style
Author: Hôtel DrouotCatalogue of Works on the Fine Arts Offered at the Net Prices Affixed
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Library Catalog
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts
Author: Detroit Institute of ArtsPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Anna Thomson Dodge, heiress to the automotive fortune, built a great home and decorated it with one of the finest groups of 18th-century French decorative arts in America. Here are more than 130 pieces of furniture, sculpture, metalwork, tapestries, Sevres porcelain, and paintings, many from royal collections.
Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Author: Hôtel Drouot