Théodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market: An Avant-Garde Landscape Painter in Nineteenth-Century France. Contextualizing Art Markets.

Kelly, Simon

ISBN 10: 1501343793 / ISBN 13: 9781501343797

Published by Bloomsbury,, 2021

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256 pages, fully illustrated in colour. Hardback 25 x 16cms. ISBN: 9781501343797. Examining the relationship between the avant-garde Barbizon landscape painter Theodore Rousseau and the art market, exploring the constellation of patrons, art dealers, and critics who surrounded the artist. Including essays on Rousseau at the Salon, artists' societies and the Cercle de l'Union Artistique, art dealers (from Adolphe Beugniet to Paul Durand-Ruel), the auction sale and the reproduction industry (from etchings to photography). Text in English.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Théodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market: An Avant-Garde Landscape Painter in Nineteenth-Century France. Contextualizing Art Markets.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury,
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501343793
• ISBN 13: 9781501343797
• Binding: Hardcover

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Synopsis

The 19th century in France witnessed the emergence of the structures of the modern art market that remain until this day. This book examines the relationship between the avant-garde Barbizon landscape painter, Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867), and this market, exploring the constellation of patrons, art dealers and critics who surrounded the artist. It argues for the pioneering role of Rousseau, his patrons and his public in the origins of the modern art market, and, in so doing, shifts attention away from the more traditional focus on the novel careers of the Impressionists and their supporters. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book provides new insight into the role of the modern artist as professional. It provides a new understanding of the complex iconographical and formal choices within Rousseau's work, rediscovering the original radical charge that once surrounded the artist's work and led to extensive and peculiarly modern tensions with the market place.

About the Authors

Simon Kelly is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum, USA, and author of Théodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Kathryn Brown is Reader in Art Histories, Markets and Digital Heritage at Loughborough University, UK. Her books include Women Readers in French Painting 1870–1890 (2012), Matisse's Poets: Critical Performance in the Artist's Book (Bloomsbury, 2017) and Henri Matisse (2021). She is the series editor of Contextualizing Art Markets (Bloomsbury).