Collecting Enlightenment
Subtitle: Carl Gustaf Tessin and the making of national collections
By: edited by Kurt Almqvist & Louise Belfrage
Contributors: Guichard, Charlotte, contributor; Tonkovich, Jennifer, contributor; Olausson, Magnus, 1956- contributor; Savill, Rosalind, contributor; Bailey, Colin B., contributor; Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse
Publisher: Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9789197958882
Subjects: Art collections; Art; Collectors and collecting; History; Drawing; Porcelain; Sèvres porcelain; Vincennes porcelain; Private collections; Kunst; Privatsammlung; Sammlung; Nationalmuseum (Sweden); Musée du Louvre; Nationalmuseum
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Kurt Almqvist & Louise Belfrage; title: Honouring Carl Gustaf Tessin at the Louvre / Xavier Salmon; title: What changed in the 1730s?: art markets and taste communities in Enlightenment Paris / Charlotte Guichard; title: Enlightened eyes?: Tessin and collecting drawing / Jennifer Tonkovich; title: Shaped by ideals: Count Tessin and art collecting in 1740s Paris / Magnus Olausson; title: The passion for collecting Vincennes and Sèvres porcelain in the 18th century / Rosalind Savill; title: "Cospetto! Che bella cosa!": Boucher's Triumph of Venus / Colin B. Bailey; title: List of illustrations; title: Contributors.