Sheltering art: collecting and social identity in early eighteenth-century Paris

Abstract

"Explores the role of private art collections in the cultural, social, and political life of early eighteenth-century Paris. Examines how two principal groups of collectors, each associated with a different political faction, amassed different types of treasures and used them to establish social identities and compete for distinction"--

Contents

Cultural geography of the French capital circa 1700 -- Cloistered in the Faubourg Saint-Germain -- The Maison Crozat transformed -- A circle of "moderns" -- The regent and collecting on the right bank -- Les anciens and an expanding public realm in the arts -- The circles converge: Carignan and Jullienne.