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Collecting Enlightenment: Carl Gustaf Tessin and the making of national collections

Contents

Preface / Kurt Almqvist & Louise Belfrage -- Honouring Carl Gustaf Tessin at the Louvre / Xavier Salmon -- What changed in the 1730s?: art markets and taste communities in Enlightenment Paris / Charlotte Guichard -- Enlightened eyes?: Tessin and collecting drawing / Jennifer Tonkovich -- Shaped by ideals: Count Tessin and art collecting in 1740s Paris / Magnus Olausson -- The passion for collecting Vincennes and Sèvres porcelain in the 18th century / Rosalind Savill -- "Cospetto! Che bella cosa!": Boucher's Triumph of Venus / Colin B. Bailey -- List of illustrations -- Contributors.

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    Stockholm: Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, [2017]

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    • 9789197958882
    • 9197958883

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    Essays first presented at a research colloquium at INHA in Paris in January 2017

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