Patriotic Taste Collecting Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Paris

Name: Patriotic Taste Collecting Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Paris
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ISBN: 9780300089868

ISBN-10: 0300089864

ISBN-13: 9780300089868

Edition: 2002

Authors: Colin B. Bailey

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During the final decades of the ancien regime, collectors in Paris commissioned and collected French paintings of the period. Colin B. Baily, an eminent art historian, discusses six of these collectors and their collections.

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 8/11/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 356
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.080
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Introduction: Patrons, Collectors, Painters



Pioneering 'Patriotic Taste': Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully (1725-1779)



Ministerial Patronage in the Private Sphere: The Abbe Joseph-Marie Terray (1718-1778)



Progressive Taste, Aristocratic Lineage: Louis-Gabriel, Marquis de Veri (1722-1785)



Money, New Men and Modern Art: Charles-Nicolas Duclos-Dufresnoy (1733-1794) and Jean Girardot de Marigny (1733-1796)



Courtiers as Collectors on the Eve of the Revolution: Joseph-Hyacinthe-Francois de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil (1740-1817)



The Decline and Fall of the Patriotic Plutus: Laurent Grimod de La Reyniere (1734-1793)


Epilogue


Appendices



La Live de Jully's Last Will and Testament (24 August 1766)



Paintings in the collection of the Marquis de Veri, March 1773



Petition by J.-F. Hue Regarding Commissions from Duclos-Dufresnoy..., 23 Pluviose, an 11 (11 February 1794)



Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings Listed in Girardot de Marigny's Posthumous Inventory


Notes


Bibliography


Photograph Credits


Index