Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- A Note on Currencies -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 Netherlandish Art in the Nineteenth Century -- Class, Taste, and the First Art Price Rankings -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Photograph Credits -- Index.

Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art restores attention to the aesthetic, intellectual, and economic link between two key periods in the history of art: the "Golden Age" of Dutch and Flemish painting and that of the French Revolution.

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