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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. Spieths 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.
Price: $161.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets
Publication Date:
05 December 2017
ISBN: 9789004336988
Format: Hardcover
"This is an important addition to the literature on the art market in Paris, covering a new area of the subject and linking the taste for Dutch and Flemish paintings of the eighteenth century to that of the later-nineteenth."
Adriana Turpin, The Society for the History of Collecting, July 2018
Darius A. Spieth, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigna, is Professor of Art History at Louisiana State University. He is the editor of the Grove Guide to Art Markets and Collecting (expected 2017), and author of Napoleons Sorcerers: The Sophisians (2007).