Mariette and the science of the connoisseur in eighteenth-century Europe

Abstract

Introduction: art history and the eighteenth-century connoisseur. Knowledge economies of the print trade. Family fortunes -- The business of collecting -- The Prince Eugene commission: a ready-made print collection -- The recueil, or the collection reproduced -- The making of a drawings connoisseur. Networks -- Seeing through drawings -- The emergence of the expert -- The science of the connoisseur -- The collector's cut. Framing the tableau -- The coup d'oeil -- The knowing hand -- Origins: of antiquarianism, aesthetics, and history. Publishing the Traité des pierres gravées -- From antiquarianism to art -- The progress of art -- Conclusion: the Mariette sales.