Online Resource | Art Collection of the Académie, 1648–1793
From the DFK Paris:
La Collection d’Art de l’Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture au Louvre, 1648–1793
Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris
The DFK Paris is pleased to present the database of the The Art Collection of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture at the Louvre / La Collection d’Art de l’Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture au Louvre. Based on the inventories of Nicolas Guérin (1715) and Antoine-Nicolas Dezallier d’Argenville (1781), the database lists 653 paintings, sculptures, prints, and plaster casts assembled by the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in the century and a half of its existence (1648–1793). It establishes their present-day locations and their locations in the eighteenth-century Louvre. The database provides useful links to the original texts of the inventories and to the Procès-verbaux. It is available in English and in French and would be of great use to scholars of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French art.
This database is the result of a collaboration between the DFK Paris, Sofya Dmitrieva, Anne Klammt (Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies), Moritz Schepp (CEO Wendig.io), the Centre Dominique-Vivant Denon (Musée du Louvre), the École nationale des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA), and the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA). It is part of the DFK’s research project, La collection d’art de l’Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, led by Markus A. Castor, that explores the history and functions of the Académie’s art collection.
New Book | Saint-Simon in Spain, 1721–1722
From Unicorn Publishing Group:
Vincent Pitts, Saint-Simon in Spain 1721–1722: An Odyssey (Lewes: Unicorn Publishing Group, 2022), 192 pages, ISBN: 978-1914414305, £25 / $38.
The duc de Saint-Simon’s memoirs of the last decades of Louis XIV’s reign and the regency of Philippe d’Orléans are considered a masterpiece of the genre and one of the glories of French literature. His accounts of the dramatic events he witnessed have informed historians for generations, while his literary portraits have influenced French authors from Sainte-Beuve to Proust. In 1721 Saint-Simon travelled to Spain as Ambassador Extraordinary to solicit the hand of a Spanish princess for the young king Louis XV. Although his mission comes very late in his long narrative, that experience looms large in his account of earlier events, hidden in plain sight, and enriched by it. The nineteenth-century essayist Sainte-Beuve dubbed Saint-Simon “the little duke with the penetrating eye.” Readers of this book can decide for themselves how penetrating an eye the little duke could bring to bear on his contemporaries, and on himself.
Vincent J. Pitts holds a PhD in European history from Harvard University. He has taught at several universities and currently teaches at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. His earlier books include Embezzlement and High Treason in Louis XIV’s France (2015); Henri IV of France, His Reign and Age (2009); La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France (2000); and The Man Who Sacked Rome: Charles de Bourbon, Constable of France (1993).
c o n t e n t s
Foreword
Introduction
Persons Frequently Mentioned in the Text
1 The Making of an Ambassador
2 The Ambassador en Route
3 The Ambassador as Observer
4 The Ambassador at Work
5 The Ambassador at Large
6 The Ambassador Emeritus
A Note on Sources
Bibliography
Notes
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Index
Enfilade 
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