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Author Montias, John Michael, 1928-2005.

Title Art at auction in 17th century Amsterdam / John Michael Montias.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations
data file
Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-255) and index.
Contents The Auctions -- Orphan Chamber Auctions in Amsterdam -- How Auction Sales of the Orphan Chamber Were Conducted -- Extant Records of Auction Sales in Chronological Perspective -- Aggregate Statistics of Sales and the Owners of Goods Sold -- The Buyers at Auction Sales -- The Wealth of Buyers -- Clusters of Private Buyers -- Remonstrants and Counter-Remonstrants -- What Did They Buy and at What Prices? -- Attributions -- Echoes -- Concluding Words on Auctions -- Profiles of Selected Buyers -- Art Dealers I: Artists and Merchants in the Trade -- Art Dealers II: Johannes de Renialme -- Art Dealers III: The Story of a Merchant Who Thought He Could Sell Paintings to a King -- Art Collectors and Painters I: Rubens's Promise to Hans Thijsz -- Art Collectors and Painters II: Jacob Swalmius and Rembrandt -- Art Collectors and Painters III: Marten van den Broeck and Rembrandt's Losses at Sea -- Art Collectors and Painters IV: Jan van Maerlen and His Extended Family -- Art Collectors and Painters V: Jean le Bleu, Francois Venant and Rembrandt's "Feast of Belshazzar" -- A Collector with Connections to Major Cultural Figures: Robbert van der Hoeve and the "Muiden Circle" -- What Santa Claus Brought to the Youth of Amsterdam -- When Sellers and Buyers Were Related: Elbert and Cornelis Symonsz. Pool, Jeltge Claes, and Pieter Claesz. Codde -- A Collector Who Held On to His Purchase for Over Fifty Years -- An Afterword on Mentalites.
Summary Examines original documents from Amsterdam's Orphan Chamber, analyzing the profiles of buyers of art by auction.
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Language English.
Subject Art auctions -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History -- 17th century.
Art auctions.
Netherlands -- Amsterdam.
History.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History -- 17th century.
Art -- Collectors and collecting.
Chronological Term 1600-1699
Indexed Term history of amsterdam
geschiedenis
kunst en kunstgeschiedenis
history, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
geschiedenis van amsterdam
historical treatment of fine and decorative arts
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Title Art at auction in seventeenth-century Amsterdam
Other Form: Print version: Montias, John Michael, 1928-2005. Art at auction in 17th century Amsterdam. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2002 9053565914 (OCoLC)51335658
ISBN 0585496455 (electronic book)
9780585496450 (electronic book)
9789048505166 (electronic book)
904850516X (electronic book)
1280958855
9781280958854
9789053565919
9053565914
Standard No. 10.5117/9789053565919