Art market and connoisseurship : a closer look at paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens and their contemporaries / edited by Anna Tummers and Koenraad Jonckheere.
Determining value on the art market in the Golden Age : an introduction / Eric Jan Sluijter -- 'By his hand' : the paradox of seventeenth-century connoisseurship / Anna Tummers -- Supply and demand : some notes on the economy of seventeenth-century connoisseurship / Koenraad Jonckheere -- 'Painters pencells move not without the musicke' : prices of Southern Netherlandish painted altarpieces between 1585 and 1650 / Natasja Peeters -- The painter versus the connoisseur? : the best judge of pictures in seventeenth-century theory and practice / Anna Tummers -- The rise of the dealer-auctioneer in Paris : information and transparency in a market for Netherlandish paintings / Neil de Marchi and Hans J. van Miegroet.
Summary
This essential volume traces the evolution of connoisseurship in the booming art market of the seventeenth- and eighteenth centuries. Not to be missed by anyone with an interest in the Old Masters and the early modern art market.
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