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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.