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LECTURE ON MONDAY, 22\/06\/2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Charlotte Guichard, Paris, talks about:<\/p>\n

Jean-Baptiste Le Brun and the Economy of Auction in the Late 18th century Paris Art Market<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date: <\/strong>22\/06\/2015, 6:15 pm
\nVenue:\u00a0<\/strong>Room\u00a0A 111, Architecture Building\u00a0of the TU, Stra\u00dfe des 17. Juni 150\/152, 10623 Berlin<\/p>\n

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Abstract:<\/strong>\u00a0On the eve of the French Revolution, Paris had imposed a strong tradition of prestigious art auctions on Europe, based on the long-standing public currency of its sales catalogues and the international reputation of its art dealers. First among them, Jean-Baptiste Lebrun\u00ad \u2014 Elisabeth Vig\u00e9e-Lebrun\u2019s husband \u2014 who organized at least 172 auctions with catalogues between 1763 and 1813.
\nMy talk will focus on his personal collection of annotated sales catalogues, which has never been studied as a whole, precisely as a collection \u2014 today forming the bulk of two major library collections of sale catalogues in Paris and Geneva. Annotated sale catalogues are traditionally used as sources for a history of provenance and prices. Lebrun\u2019s own collection of sales catalogues proves that they also offer fascinating insights into the economic and professional culture of art dealers. The annotations written in the margins of the catalogues shed new light on communities of bidders during the sale and on the economy of auctions. The microcosm of the Paris art auctions emerges as a small world where social ties and credit were closely intermingled. Paris art auctions were a dealer\u2019s market in the 1780s, outbidding private buyers and amateurs. This immersion in Lebrun\u2019s auctions leaves a highly paradoxical impression. While the Paris auctions undoubtedly contributed to turning the city into Europe\u2019s art capital in the middle of eighteenth century, was the small world of the Paris dealers equipped to withstand the drastic economic conditions of the French Revolution?<\/p>\n

Charlotte Guichard<\/strong> is Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris, Ecole normale sup\u00e9rieure). She is an historian of eighteenth-century European art and visual culture, with a special interest in the history of collecting, amateur practices and the art market. She is the author of Les amateurs d’art \u00e0 Paris au 18e si\u00e8cle<\/em> (Champ Vallon, 2008) and Graffitis. Inscrire son nom \u00e0 Rome, 16e-19e si\u00e8cle<\/em> (Seuil, 2014), written when she was a Fellow at the French Academy of Rome (Villa Medici). She is currently writing a book on signatures in eighteenth-century French painting in a perspective that bridges history of connoisseurship, history of the self and the value of art.<\/p>\n

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LECTURE ON MONDAY, 22\/06\/2015 Dr. Charlotte Guichard, Paris, talks about: Jean-Baptiste Le Brun and the Economy of Auction in the Late 18th century Paris Art Market Date: 22\/06\/2015, 6:15 pm Venue:\u00a0Room\u00a0A 111, Architecture Building\u00a0of the TU, Stra\u00dfe des 17. Juni 150\/152, 10623 Berlin ++Title, abstract and CV are always written in the respective language of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1274","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fokum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fokum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fokum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fokum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fokum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/fokum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6990,"href":"https:\/\/fokum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1274\/revisions\/6990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fokum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}