Enfilade

Ignacio de León y Escosura, Auction Sale in Clinton Hall, New York, detail, 1876
(New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist, 1883, 83.11)

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From the conference programme:

The Commerce and Circulation of Decorative Arts, 1792–1914:
Auctions, Dealers, Collectors, and Museums
Le commerce et la circulation des objets d’art, 1792–1914:
Ventes aux enchères, marchands/es, collectionneurs/ses et musées
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 25–27 September 2024

This international three-day colloquium, to be held in Lyon, France, from 25 to 27 September 2024, will investigate the role played by auctions, dealers, collectors, and museums in the circulation of the decorative arts from 1792 until 1914. Beginning with the ‘ventes des biens des émigrés’ in Revolutionary France and ending with the onset of World War I, these were years of seismic political and socio-economic change that revolutionised the art market. Day 1 will start with an introduction by Daniel Alcouffe and an opening lecture by Tom Stammers. Three sessions will follow on the role of auctions, antique dealers, and dealer-decorators in the circulation of the decorative arts. Day 2 will be devoted to the museums, collectors, and networks of exchange across borders. Day 3 will discuss the interplay between the market, expertise, and the tailoring of objects, ending in the afternoon with a round-table discussion on research in the digital age, showcasing several projects, with short presentations by Mark Westgarth, Lynn Catterson, Koenraad Brosens, and Anne-Sophie Radermecker. The conference is free to attend but registration is essential. Your registration will be effective for any session you wish to attend throughout the conference. Accommodation in Lyon is limited; so we suggest that you arrange this as soon as possible. Please see the conference page for updates.

This colloquium forms part of a wider project on the market for decorative arts: OBJECTive – ANR ACCESS ERC / Université Lumière Lyon-2, LARHRA : OBJECTive – ANR Objects through the Art Market : A Global Perspective – LARHRA.

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10.30  Introduction
• Welcome — Camille Mestdagh and Diana Davis (organisers)
• Introductory Comments — Daniel Alcouffe (Conservateur général honoraire au musée du Louvre), Les arts décoratifs : Une ressource pour l’avenir de l’histoire de l’art
• Opening Lecture — Tom Stammers (Reader in the history of the art market, The Courtauld Institute of Art), Dealing with the Decorative Arts: Sources, Paradigms, and Problems

11.30  Session 1 | The Auction: A Window on the Decorative Arts Market
Moderator: Suzanne Higgott (independent scholar, formerly the Wallace Collection)
• Helen Jacobsen (PhD, University of Oxford, Executive Director, The Attingham Trust), The Anatomy of an Auctioneer: Harry Phillips and the Growth of the Decorative Art Market in London, 1796–1839
• Stuart Moss (PhD candidate, University College London), ‘Schöne Kunstsachen aller Art’: Decorative Art at the Munich Secularisation Sales, 1803–1807
• Sabine Lubliner-Mattatia (PhD, Sorbonne Université, independent lecturer), From the Limelight to the Spotlight: The Jewellery Sales of Actresses in 19th-Century Paris (in French)

13.00  Lunch

14.00  Session 2 | Fluid Boundaries: Defining the Antique Dealer
Moderator: Paola Cordera (Associate Professor, Politecnico Milano, School of Design)
• Lucie Chopard (PhD, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Saprat), The Sichel Brothers and the Parisian Art Market: Commercial Networks and Strategies
• Servane Rodié-Dumon (PhD candidate, Université d’Artois), Objects in Motion: Emile Peyre’s Collection of Decorative Art and the South Kensington Museum
• Nathalie Neumann (provenance researcher, formerly Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz), Reconstructing the Art Collection of Felix Ganz (1869–1944): From Constantinople to Northern Europe

15.30  Break

16.00  Session 3 | Dealer Decorators in the Gilded Age: Shaping Taste in the New World
Moderator: Adriana Turpin (Professor, IESA Arts and Culture)
• Justine Lécuyer (PhD, Sorbonne Université), Tapissiers: Interior Decorators as Experts, Antique Dealers, and Collectors: The Example of Rémon and Alavoine
• Flaminia Ferlito (PhD candidate, Scuola Alti Studi Lucca), Stanford White: Italian Baroque Elegance and the Decorative Art Market
• Aniel Guxholli (Lecturer, McGill University, School of Architecture), The Culture Market: American Firms and French Decorative Arts in Montreal

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9.00  Session 4 | The Art Market and the Museum: Collecting, Display, and Knowledge
Moderator: Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth (PhD, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh)
• Françoise Barbe (Conservatrice en chef du patrimoine) and Fernando Filipponi (PhD, Chargé de recherche, musée du Louvre), The Commerce and Circulation of Maiolica between Italy and France, 1850–1902: A Case Study of the Argnani Collection in the Musée du Louvre (in French)
• Félix Zorzo (Assistant Curator, National Museums Scotland), The Public Collecting of Spanish Ceramics in 19th-Century Edinburgh
• Maialen Maugars (PhD candidate, University of Warwick), Collecting Italian Renaissance Decorative Arts for the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1881–1889
• Mirjam Dénes (Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts, Budapest), Crafting Connections, Making Meanings, and Sealing Deals: Jenő Radisics and the International Network of the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts, 1897–1914

11.00  Break

11.30  Session 5 | Collectors and Their Networks of Acquisition
Moderator: Elodie Baillot (Maîtresse de conférences, Université Lumière Lyon-2)
• Armandine Malbois (PhD candidate, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Saprat, Ecole du Louvre), The Schlichting Taste: Collecting 18th-Century French Decorative Arts for the Louvre, 1880–1914
• Agnès Bos (Déléguée générale, Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, École nationale des chartes-PSL), A Very Special Collection: The Marquise Arconati Visconti (1840–1923), Her Network, and Personal Choices
• Paula Maria de la Fuente Polo (PhD candidate, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid), The Formation of the Hispano-Moresque Ceramic Collection of Don Guillermo de Osma y Scull

13.00  Lunch

14.30  Session 6 | Networks and Cultural Exchange across the Oceans
Moderator: Florencia Rodríguez Giavarini (PhD Fellow, Centro de Investigaciones en Arte y Patrimonio, Buenos Aires)
• Gustavo Brognara (PhD candidate, Universidade de São Paulo), Cultural Exchanges: The Circulation of European Decorative Arts in Brazil
• Paolo Coen (Professor of Museology, Università di Teramo), The Export of Art Objects from Rome to Australia and New Zealand, 1884–1904

15.30  Break

16.00  Session 7 | The Middle East and Asia in Europe: Inventing Genres and Forming Taste
Moderator: Elizabeth Emery (Professor, Montclair University)
• Mercedes Volait (Emeritus Research Professor, CNRS), ‘Arab Antiques?’: Scrutinising an Egyptian Collection of Middle Eastern Artefacts Dispersed in the Wake of the Paris 1867 Exposition Universelle
• Akane Nishii (PhD, CRJ-EHESS, CY Cergy Paris Université), The Export of Japanese Decorative Arts from Yokohama in the 1870s
• Maria Metoikidou (PhD candidate, University of Glasgow), Shifting Perspectives on Japonisme Collecting: Exploring the Case of Gregorios Manos in the Market for Japanese Objects

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9.00  Session 8 | Connoisseurship: Framing Objects for the Market
Moderator: Damien Delille (Maître de conférences, Université Lumière Lyon-2)
• Inès Maechler (Master, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Saprat), The Paris 1876 Retrospective Exhibition of Tapestries: Institutions, Collectors, and the Development of a Market (in French)
• Pauline d’Abrigeon (Conservatrice, Fondation Baur/ PhD candidate, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études), Pathways of the ‘Famille Rose’ in the Parisian Art Market during the Second Half of the 19th Century: From the Success of a Term to the Success of the Object
• Nick Pearce (Professor, Richmond Chair of Fine Art, University of Glasgow), A New Taste for the Old: Collecting Chinese Ceramics, 1910

10.30  Break

11.00  Session 9 | From Floor to Ceiling: Reconfiguring Objects for the Market
Moderator: Jérémie Cerman (Professeur, Université d’Artois)
• Kassiani Kagouridi (PhD candidate, University of Ioannina), Tailoring the ‘Baluchistan’ Carpets: Art Market and Art Historiography Interplay in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Europe
• Mei Mei Rado (Assistant Professor, Bard Graduate Center), Fragments, Encyclopedia, and Industry: Japanese Silk Samples Collected and Sold by Siegfried Bing and Hayashi Tadamasa
• Roberta Aglio (PhD candidate, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona), The Dispersion, Circulation, and Reuse of Ceiling Panels in France in the 19th and 20th Centuries

12.30  Lunch

13.30 Session 10 | Rethinking Research Approaches for the Digital Age
Moderator: Sandra van Ginhoven (Head, Getty Provenance Index, Getty Research Institute)
• Camille Mestdagh (Chercheure, Université Lumière Lyon-2) and Morgane Pica (Ingénieure d’études, ENS Lyon), A Presentation of Project OBJECTive: Objects through the Art Market
Round Table
• Lynn Catterson (Lecturer, University of Columbia, NY), Stefano Bardini: Mapping a Dealer’s Transnational Network
• Mark Westgarth (Professor, University of Leeds), Antique Dealer Archives in the Digital Age
• Anne-Sophie Radermecker (Assistant Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles), Price-Related Sources in Historical Contexts: The Case of the Val Saint Lambert Crystal Glassware Manufactory
• Koenraad Brosens (Professor, KU Leuven University), Project Cornelia and Slow Digital Art History: A New Path in the Study of Flemish Tapestries
• Pierre Vernus (Maître de conférences, Université Lumière Lyon-2, LARHRA, Head of Project SILKNOW), Concluding Remarks

16.00  Final Words — Natacha Coquery, Igor Moullier, and Paola Cordera

Organising Committee
Natacha Coquery (Professeure, Université Lumière Lyon 2, LARHRA), Camille Mestdagh (Post-doctoral researcher, Université Lumière Lyon 2, LARHRA), Igor Moullier (Maître de conférences, ENS Lyon, LARHRA), Rossella Froissart (Directrice d’études, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études-PSL, SAPRAT), Diana Davis (Independent researcher, PhD, University of Buckingham)

Scientific Committee
Arnaud Bertinet (Maître de Conférences, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne), Jérémie Cerman (Professeur, Université d’Artois, Arras), Paola Cordera (Associate Professor, Politecnico di Milano), Elizabeth Emery (Professor, Montclair State University, New Jersey), Sandra van Ginhoven (Head, Getty Provenance Index, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles), Anne Helmreich (Director, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington), Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth (Lecturer, University of Edinburgh), Johannes Nathan (co-founder of the Centre of Art Market Studies, Technische Universität, Berlin), Anne Perrin-Khelissa (Maître de conferences HDR, Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès), Florencia Rodríguez Giavarini (Doctoral fellow, UNSAM-CONICET, Buenos Aires), Adriana Turpin (Head of Research, IESA, Paris)