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Allano, Mylène. "Peintures italiennes en Bretagne : collections d'aujourd'hui, goûts d'hier." Rennes 2, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005REN20002.
Full textBritanny is wealthy of an underestimated inheritance, constituated of about a thousand Italian paintings that cover the large period from the XIIIth century to the XIXth century. Those pictures, that can be mostly found in museums but also in some religious buildings and town halls are a legacy from a past going before the French Revolution - a time in which emigrants and Clergy's possessions were seized to be given to the public domain. In fact, it is from the XVIIth century on, and under the boost of engraving that Britanny has been discovering Italian painting. Nevertheless, it is necessary to wait for the XIXth century and the forming of a new generation of private collectors for the picture acquisition to spread. The increasing practice of donation and, at the same time, the blossoming museums, enriched the public collections, and the State's sendings and depositings
Aubert, Gauthier. "La noblesse, le pouvoir et le savoir dans la Bretagne des Lumières : le président de Robien : (1698-1756) : gentilhomme et savant en son siècle." Rennes 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000REN20019.
Full textIn 18th century Brittany, not renowned for being open to new ideas, a man stands out : President de Robien (1698-1756) a wealthy member of Brittany's High Judicial Court, descended from an ancient family of provincial aristocracy, he was a collector, an antique lover and a naturalist and his fame reached beyond the limits of Brittany. Through a study of this dignitary, this work aims at analysing how the ideas of the Enlightenment made their way into the Breton ruling circles by comparing Robien with his environment, in particular thanks to the death inventories of the Breton elites of this age. The first part is devoted to the ways and means that led to the rise of Robien in his province, through a study of his family, his fortune, his office, his standard of living and his influence on the society of his time. The second part deals with Robien's attitude towards the different fields of learning through an analysis of his writings, his use of intellectual curiosity, and the role he meant to play in the literary republic as well as the place actually had within it. Thus, through Robien is suggested an approach of the relationship between the Nobility, Power and Learning on the periphery of Europe Enlightenment. As a conclusion, this work will study the posthumous fate of this dignitary, part and parcel of Brittany's heritage, whose importance is indisputable today
Hervieu, Maïder. "Un « curieux de papier » dans la Bretagne des Lumières : étude de la collection d'estampes du président Christophe-Paul de Robien (1698-1756)." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022REN20001.
Full textUnmissable figure in Rennes' cultural and intellectual life in the first half 18th century, Christophe-Paul de Robien was one of the great provincial scholars and collectors of his time. Amatory of arts and belles-lettres, passionate about sciences and antiquity, this Breton parliamentarian set up inside of his mansion in Rennes an incredibly diversified cabinet of curiosities. The image, and in particular the printed image, occupied a great importance at the heart of his curiosity practices. As part of an encyclopedic process of access to all of universal knowledge, the president de Robien was able to find in the print the ideal medium able to fulfilling his desire for possession, both material and intellectual. Today scattered between the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, the Musée de Bretagne and Les Champs Libres's library, this collection of prints therefore deserved a complete reconstruction in order to capture the several intentions that contributed to its development. This study will also focus on the relations maintained by the magistrate with scientific imaging and the illustration practice that he may have had for his own manuscripts
Gouthe, Glenn. "Xavier de Langlais et la langue bretonne : création, sauvegarde, transmission : étude de la place du breton dans la vie d’une personnalité bretonne du XXe siècle." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021REN20051.
Full textHow did Xavier de Langlais participate in the life and survival of the Breton language during the 20th century? Breton personality, member of the Seiz Breur, he is a direct witness of the upheavals then affecting the Breton language and gradually leading to its decline. His artistic activity, such as his paintings, engravings, illustrations and even his frescoes have made him famous in Brittany and beyond. His work in the Breton language and in favour of it is less well known. This study attempts to understand the link he had with the Breton language and his activism in favour of it. He took it upon himself to learn the Breton language in a non-breton-speaking family background. He composed poems, novels, short stories, plays. He actively participated in the main literary journals of the time such as Gwalarn or Dihunamb. He took interest in the language of his environment in Vannes country by collecting songs, tales, phrases, proverbs in the field, in the region of Surzur. He fully embarked on a spelling reform which had become essential in his eyes so that the language could be taught in the school system and thus allow a transmission to future generations
Marion, Michel. "Collections et collectionneurs de livres au XVIIIe siècle." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040157.
Full textIn the Bibliotheque Nationale, in Paris, auction books catalogues are kept and also preserved: they are the basement of the present thesis. Book collectors, in their social condition, marriages, parents and locations, especially in the head town, are presented. Estates and royalties are evaluated too. Collections themselves are also presented, so in their global part than in their secular variations. Foreign editorial production, knowledge of European and nexs, which collectors used to study production are the aim of an analysis, so too the public auctions: books are very expensive. So we may say that collecting books is an advantage that only few could have
Henry-Virly, Vanessa. "Les intailles et les camées dans les collections en France au XVIIIème siècle." Rennes 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010REN20044.
Full textSince the fourth millennia B. C. , cameos and intaglios have been made and used as ornaments, as talismans, or as means of political propaganda. Private individuals and administrations have also used them as seals, and from the very outset, these engraved stones have been sought after by collectors. Eighteenth-century France is no exception to this demand. This thesis sets out to determine the role and status of cameos and intaglios in the collections of the period, to identify the individuals who collected them and to evaluate the part personal taste or social conventions played in the constitution of such collections. The study of the press, publications and auction catalogues from this era in France, reveals that engraved gemstones are considered as objets d’art, as research tools and as a medium for social representation. Aside from the Répertoire of F. Lugt which catalogues 33 auctions of this type, there has been few publications in this area of the history of collections. Research carried out in this thesis has resulted in the discovery of several hundred collectors of glyptic art. Potentially, each of these individuals may now be the subject of further study using the research tools and resources developed as an integral part of this thesis. The uses to which these tools may be put is demonstrated in the analysis of several collectors including: Mariette, Caylus, the Princess Palatine and the Countess de Verrue. This thesis is the first investigation of its kind in this field and aims to contribute to the development of research on cameos and intaglios in eighteenth-century France
Notteghem, Emilie. "Parcours d’objets de dévotion : mémoire, esthétique, culture (France, XIXème-XXIème siècles)." Paris 10, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA100069.
Full textWhile cultual obligations are fading away, initiatives from private collectors, associations, sacred art museums to preserve Christian material heritage are growing. First, this study investigates individuals’ ways to distance themselves from Catholicism, in adulthood: objects are used to hold together a biographic and cultural memory. The autonomy of aesthetic from religion neutralizes objects’ cultual value; however they may acquire new ritual functions which extend or transpose domestic use of Christian traditions. Secondly, this study sheds light on religion officers’ position, caught in between two institutional movements of heritage summons – either ecclesiastical or governmental. This analysis leads to the conclusion that it is extremely difficult to work with liturgical objects and quasi-impossible to make non-religious sacred art museums. Museography seems to be helpless to resuscitate as a culture the so-called “shared heritage”
Viellard-Cazaumayou, Sophie. "La circulation des objets océaniens en Occident : contribution à une analyse anthropologique du marché de l'art primitif en France." Paris, EHESS, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005EHES0190.
Full textUntil recently, the anthropology research hasn't paid much attention to the tribal art market. Yet the study enriches, not only the knowledge of the french collections but also grasping the process of the value from the "curios" to art. Furthermore, we can see a different approach of exchange system. South Sea objets circulating in the Occident are useful for the understanding of tha market specificity. The growing media coverage in the 20 th century showed the emerging of these goods in the art market and especially in the auctions. The speeches of the actors specializing in that field also bring a multitude of informations to grasp the commercial manipulation of these items. This is discernible in the multiplication of references linked to the authenticity and rarefaction of the object. In addition, these also bring the collectors to keep the object as a sacred thing. However, item which became inalienable in Occident is sometimes underlying goods of oceanian identity and culture. This increases the problem of legitimacy of the possession and restitution of this object
Trébosc, Delphine. "Confronter l'art : les collections de raretés de la Renaissance française." Paris 1, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA010573.
Full textMeyer, Anne-Doris. "Le "musée personnel" de la collection privée au Musée public : parcours de l'objet d'art en France au XIXème siècle." Strasbourg 2, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001STR20001.
Full textSarmant, Thierry. "La république des médailles : numismates et collections numismatiques à Paris du XVIIe au XIXe siècle." Paris 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA010580.
Full textLike the republic of letters, the republic of medals lived his golden age in XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. Then, Paris was one of the most important centres of European numismatical activity, particularly during the reign of Louis XIV. This republic was neither a coherent structure, nor an organised network. The metallical nation never had any centre or head no collection, not even the king's one, could play this part. However, in the first quarter of the XVIIIth century, a body, the academie royale des inscriptions, was something like a senate of this republic. In fact, the republic of medals'cohesion came from a community of uses and conceptions. The same books of medals circulated all over europe the cabinets were ordinated according to the same principles. The alliance between collectors and scientists was a strong cement too the republic of medals was respublica curiosa as well as litteraria. Coin collection was always linked with books of medals the medal cabinet was a complement and an ornament for a library so, numismatic curiosity presents a great likeness with book collection : same alliance of aesthetic worry and of intellectual one, same value of empirical knowledge for research, same importance of the sense of touch, same attention to the notion of exemplary. The great steps of the history of numismatics are 1660, when the science of medals became independent, years 1720-1730, when numismatical curiosity faded away, years 1770, when the pellerin generation brought decisive transformations to method and a new point of view on coins, and, finally, the years 1830, when numismatics found the centres it yet conserves : big Parisian merchants, revue numismatique, soon société francaise de numismatique, cabinet des médailles. Long seen as an uninteresting period of numismatics' history, XVIIIth century was, in fact, an essential moment, and the true grand siecle of the republic of medals
Tillerot, Isabelle. "Jean de Jullienne et les collectionneurs de son temps : un regard singulier sur le tableau." Paris 10, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA100107.
Full textThis thesis concerns the relationship between ancient and modern art in Parisian collections of the first half of the 18th century. It studies the place of Jean de Jullienne within a group of collectors in his circle, in its cultural, financial and economic implications, as well as the function of the collection, the role it played for living artists, and issues of display. Finally, it examines the stakes of the collection and its ends, as well as the signification of painted works of art within the space of the collection
Tokpassi, Hervé. "Les parlementaires bordelais et les arts au XVIIIème siècle : architecture et collections." Bordeaux 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009BOR30008.
Full textThrough their social position, the members of Parliament were the most influential and the richest class in the eighteenth-century. They also had the cultural prestige that allowed them to be in the well educated elite of the Age of Enlightenment. This work is to establish the relationship between the members of the Bordeaux Parliament and the artistic environment. The first part discusses the Bordeaux Parliament and the robine nobility’s lifestyle specifically through the fortune of his members and the place of the parliamentary group within the cultural and intellectual elite of Bordeaux. The second parts deals with the study of the architectural heritage. It states the architects achievements financed by the magistrates "master builders", whose imposing, private, and richly adorned hotels plus the prestigious chateaux, still represent their power at the time. The last part analyses the furniture design and style and the different collections of the Members of Parliament, that show the taste and the artistic sensibilities of this enlightened class. The study ends by identifying a possible patronage from the members of Parliament
Zmelty, Nicholas-Henri. "L'affiche illustrée en France (1889-1905) : naissance d'un genre ?" Amiens, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010AMIE0007.
Full textRolland, Frédéric. "Les collections privées de films de cinéma en support argentique en France." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009VERS008S.
Full textThe vagaries of film preservation (within the film industry) has led to a considerable number of films to vanish. While film and audiovisual archives institutions have multiplied and they have significant funds, there are at the same time in France amateurs, collectors of silver film prints, which sometimes have rare or unique titles in all formats. Beyond release films, specialized for amateur market, face a legal environment often hostile to their passion, their activities and even their existence are unknown. Knowledge of available resources is still desirable in terms of heritage but also functional when the transition process chain engineering manufacturing and distribution of photochemical film to digital began last few years. The digitization of holdings listed should remain incomplete for long and many films will be invisible. Private collectors could further collaborate with institutions and rightholders to the preservation of French cinema
Cordier, Samuel. "Tendances et particularismes des collections provinciales au XVIIIe siècle : l'exemple du nîmois Jean-François Séguier." Paris, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005MNHN0059.
Full textHow do people build collections in the French province during the 18th century ? The study of Jean-François Séguier’s (1703-1784) biography and masterpiece, allows us to measure the contribution of a provincial collector in the age of Enlightenment to France and to the scientific European world. At a time when collections are less and less an object of curiosity and become increasingly rationally organised, exchanges between Paris and the scientific networks contribute to mutual enrichment. Known as for his works upon antiquities, Séguier is also a naturalist whose masterpiece accurately reflects the changing envision of nature during the 18th century. The link between collections and the state-of-the-art reflects the intensity of exchanges and constant information transfers between European botanists. In touch with Linnaeus, with the botanists of the “ King’s Garden ” in Paris, and with those in Montpellier, Séguier is a modern researcher of the 18th century. Testimonies from contemporary visitors enable us to reconstruct the setting up of the different rooms of an historical House, which clearly contrasts with the Cabinets of curiosities and where the cosmopolitism of the Enlightenment took its roots. By opening his door and proposing an unique image of his knowledge, Séguier attracts numerous visitors and invents new modes of socializing. Our study underlines the strong impact of those exchanges
Marandet, François. "Marchands et collectionneurs de tableaux à Paris (1710-1756) : les acteurs et les mécanismes de circulation de la peinture dans la première moitié du 18ème siècle en France." Paris, EPHE, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009EPHE4016.
Full textIn France, during the first half of the eighteenth century, the role played by art dealers in the formation of the greatest collections of painting (the Regent, Pierre Crozat, Countess de Verrue, prince of Carignano) remains an obscure matter. The discovery of the account book of an art dealer and of many other archival documents enables us to reconstitute some of the most important transactions of the art market. At the end of the reign of Louis XIV, jewelers like Le Tessier de Montarsis negotiated for the Regent and Pierre Crozat a series of fundamental works art (by Raphaël, Veronese, Poussin), while some "maîtres-peintres" like André Tramblin and Pierre Testard started playing a growing role in the exchanges. After 1720, dealers who came from the Netherlands and who had established themselves in Paris, especially Joseph-Ferdinand Godefroid, were now advising the most famous collectors. Renowned for their gifts as restorers, Flemish dealers promoted Northern genre scenes while the "classical taste" (Poussin, Titian, Tintoretto) fell into some kind of disgrace. The phenomenon can be seen when the collection of La Chataigneraye was auctioned (1733) and when some forty pictures were acquired to enrich the collection of Louis XIV (1742). The auction catalogue was now gradually spreading out and it is through this commercial tool that a mercier like Gersaint tried to develop his business. After 1740, german sovereigns turned more and more to the parisian art market, especially kings Augustus III and Frederic II. In 1756, the beginning of the war of the Seven Years was to put an end to this more european period of the markert of art
Witkowski, Martine. "François Ier amateur d'art : les collections royales dans la première moitié du XVIe siècle." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040078.
Full textThis study shows the artistic aspect of Francis 1's reign. It presents first the king as a connoisseur (the word collection didn't exist at the renaissance time) and as a mecene. The royal collections are then studied: collections of paintings, sculptures, tapestries, the furniture, the library, the arms' collection, the jewels, the silverware, the small antiquities, the medals, the gems and the natural curiosities. In conclusion we insist on the important role of Francis i in the French renaissance and on what happened to his collections a part of which could be preserved until today
Castelluccio, Stéphane. "L'hôtel du Garde-Meuble de la Couronne et les collections royales d'objets d'art, 1774-1798." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040135.
Full textThis research about the hotel du Garde-Meuble de la Couronne from 1774 to 1798, now the French navy headquarters place de la Concorde at Paris, is made up three parts: the directors at the XVIIIe century, decoration and furniture of their apartment and the royal collections. The office of intendant des meubles de la Couronne belonged to the Fontanieu's family since Louis XIV. Pierre Elisabeth (1764-1784), cultured and art lover, knew very well the Parisian artistic sphere. Thierry de Ville d'Avray (1784-179z) was the result of the social ascension of his family with offices. Less cultured than his predecessor, he managed the garde-meuble as an administrator. For the realisation of his apartment, Fontanieu appeal to the royal craftsmen. They realized one of the most beautiful decoration of the beginning of the 1770's. Thierry extended the apartment and choose spectacular furniture. For them, sumptuousness of the apartment reflected the administration's prestige. Collected by Louis XIV by pleasure and for ostentation, the royal collections of objets d'art left Versailles during the XVIIIth century by the lack of interest from Louis XV and Louis XVI. Exhibit at the Garde-Meuble since 1776, the collections showed the monarchy's pomp. The revolution considered them as national patrimony, but they became a reserve of curios. The prestige of the garde-meuble was at the height in the XVIIIth century, but the Revolution did not accept it was a museum: the Garde-Meuble had just to manage the furniture: it became the present French Mobilier national
Daugeron, Bertrand. "Apparition-Disparition des Nouveaux mondes en histoire naturelle : Enregistrement-Epuisement des collections scientifiques (1763-1830)." Paris, EHESS, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007EHES0071.
Full textThe comprehension of the relegation of the human artifacts from the collections of the Museum d'Histoire naturelle (1797) requires connecting objects and knowledge. This issue understands better how the conditions of political production of scientific objects, revealed during the maritime expeditions and the revolutionary seizures, affect classifications. Two series will be connected : on the one hand the cognitive dimension of the collections raised by methodological problems, from a naturalist point of view which classifies through objects and, on the other hand, from the loss of the American possessions until the catch of Algiers, a colonial interval, which explores the Pacific and colonize it. The exclusion of the man-made objects would structure the deep time of the history of nature, while relegating the primitive in the margins of History, condemned to vanish or to be colonized. Behind this relegation, the vision of the Other changes turning from the savage into the primitive
Barreteau, Frédérique-Edwige. "La pratique et le goût d'un collectionneur d'estampes à Nantes, durant la seconde moitié du XIXème siècle : Thomas Dobrée (1810-1895)." Rennes 2, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007REN20010.
Full textThomas Dobrée (1810-1895), heir to a family of Nantes traders, gathered a collection of three thousand two hundred and fifty five prints from XVe to XIXe centuries mainly schools of North, with a predilection for the French school of the XVIIe century and a passion for Dürer and Rembrandt. These engravings in their majority were acquired at the time of the auction sales of the Drouot hotel and abroad of 1850 to 1880, via merchants of reputations : Vignères, Clément and Loizelet. Dobrée was in competition famous amateurs such as Dutuit, Rothschild, Behague, etc. The force of the Nantes funds lies in the great quality of works obtained, in their prestigious sources and the richness of the handwritten sources preserved within the five hundred catalogues of auction sales, some annotated, present in the invaluable library of the Dobrée museum. These new data make it possible to understand the mechanisms of the formation of a collection of engravings during the second half of the XlXe century, by putting forward the practice of an amateur and the tastes which chaired its choices and to confront them with those of its contemporaries
Maget, Antoinette. "Enjeux et évolutions du collectionnisme public : les collections d'antiquités égyptiennes de Berlin, de Londres et de Paris)." Paris 11, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA111029.
Full textWeil-Curiel, Moana. "Recherches sur Louis Hesselin (1602-1662), ses résidences et ses collections." Paris, EPHE, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001EPHE4038.
Full textMiranda, Mendoza Ileana. "L' économie du patrimoine écrit : le marché des autographes." Paris 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA010078.
Full textVerbeke, Karine. "Le Monnayage médiéval alsacien du VIe au XIIIe siècle, à travers les collections numismatiques de la Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg et de la Ville de Strasbourg." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001STR20035.
Full textThe subject of this paper is the history of the Alsatian coinage within the territory of the diocese of Strasbourg, from the first traces of a monetary activity under the Merovingian sovereigns, to the advent of a municipal currency in Strasbourg at the end of the XIII. Th century. .
Mercier, Cyril. "Les collectionneurs d'art contemporain : analyse sociologique d'un groupe social et de son rôle sur le marché de l'art." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00831145.
Full textHattori, Cordélia. "Pierre Crozat (1665-1740), un financier collectionneur et mécène." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040237.
Full textPierre Crozat (1665-1740) is a financier famous for his activities as a collector and patron. Protector of Antoine Watteau, friend of Rosalba Carriera, patron of Charles de la Fosse and Pierre II Legros, his Parisian hotel, rue de Richelieu, built by J. -S. Cartaud, was a rendez,-vous place for amateurs, connoisseurs, collectors and artists. The painters of the royal academy, the foreign artists coming to Paris, Bachaumont, Caylus or Mariette met together during the weekly assemblies organized by Pierre Crozat, and studied the great collection of drawings. The artists also came to study and copy the sheets of great masters. They also could see Pierre Crozat's collections of paintings, etchings, sculptures, engraved stones and some 'objets de curiosités". A large library, with many books on art, was also available. Besides, Pierre Crozat, was a lover of Italy, where he went once to negotiate, for the regent, the collection of paintings of the queen of Sweden. After his return to France, he kept some relations with Firenze, Rome (especially with the academic de France directed by Charles Poerson and Nicolas Vleughels), and Venice. In England, the duc of Devonshire became one of Pierre Crozat's correspondents. Among the activities of Pierre Crozat's circle of connoisseurs - to which theorical references were R. De piles and C. Vasari writings - began a project of a "recueil d'estampes" which particularity was to mix a text and illustrations for the first time. But it stayed unfinished. The hotel Crozat was like an academy, and had a very important place for the amateurs connoisseurs and for the artists of the beginning of the XVIIIth century
Pety, Dominique. "Collection et écriture : les Goncourt en leur temps." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030098.
Full textDuring the second half of the 19th century, the Goncourt brothers have been lovers and collectors of 18th century French art and Japanese art. Their literary works must therefore be reinterpreted in the light of their art collections. To put them back into context, we first proceed to a historical study. 19th century collecting deals with conflicting values, remmants of the past being either considered as a fertile heritage or as a deal weight, which reveals the anxiety of a period confronted with the hardship of creating something new. The Goncourt brothers overcame this anxiety by uniting their collections into an single work of art in the overwhelming space of their home and private museum. .
Huang, Shu-Lin. "La promotion de la peinture de paysage en France, de Roger de Piles à la création du grand prix de Rome de paysage historique (1708-1817) : théoriciens, amateurs, peintres & État." Paris 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA010513.
Full textBanguiam, Kodjalbaye Olivier. "Les officiers français : constitution et devenir de leurs collections africaines issues de la conquête coloniale." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100045/document.
Full textThis research concerns the French officers contribution during the colonization of Africa and the quality of the african objects that they collected. It aims to study the exploration and the conquest of Africa at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. During this period, European countries sent in the different parts of the continent many explorers to colonize the population. Those explorers had different social classes and jobs. Among them, there were, for example, religious persons, administrators and soldiers. It is the colonial action of the French officers in the different countries of Africa (Mali, Senegal, Congo, Chad, Central Africa Republic…) that is studing. During the exploration travel, the colonial officers discovered in those countries different kinds of objects. According of the instructions they received in France before their travel, they collected the local objects as the arms, the royal objects, the music objects, the cooking objects, the objects of the traditional ceremony. It’s interesting to study where the objects provided and the conditions of the collect. It’s a best way to know the particularities of the result of the officers discoveries. At the end of the journey in Africa, the officers brought to France the result of the collect and offered the objects to the French museums as the Musée de l’Homme, the Musée de l’Armée. Today, the Musée du Quai Branly is conserving the documents about the exploration travels of many officers (Archinard, Brazza, Marchand, Tilho, Lenfant…) and some of the objects they had collected for studying the customs of the African populations. We interroged about 1500 objects they had collected. The history of those objects is associated to the Africa colonization history. Nowadays, those objects constitute a colonial heritage and permit to analyze the European vision and the military perception about the African material culture and to know the degree of the civilization of the African populations who made and used those objects in Africa at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th
Gayet, Gwenn. "Le manoir de Kerazan et ses propriétaires : Architecture, décor inérieur et collections." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014CLF20004.
Full textThe domain of Kerazan, still an underestimated set, was bequeathed to the Institute of France by Joseph-Georges Astor in 1929. Placed right in the heart of the Bigouden County, between Pont-l'Abbé and Loctudy, the manor house of Kerazan is today one of the jewels of the lifestyle in the XIXth century, in South Finistère. Spreading out from the XVIth century to 1934, a whole collection of decorative arts fills the manor house: paintings of regional masters, Breton furniture or still earthenware of Quimper make this building live as they make the past live. This eclectic set was made by a family of three collectors: Joseph Astor II, Mayor of Quimper from 1870 to 1886, member of the “General Council” (from 1877 to 1895) and first republican Senator of Finistère, elected in 1890 until he died in 1901. His son, Joseph-Georges Astor, Doctor of Law, continued the family collection throughout his life, before bequeathing - under certain conditions - the whole collection to the Institute of France.Last member of this family of collectors, brother-in-law of Joseph Astor II and uncle of Joseph-Georges Astor, Georges Arnoult was elected Member of Parliament of the second district of Quimper from 1876 to 1885.The manor house and its domain, have known very important modifications, since the end of the XVth century up to nowadays, and that is what we are going to study here, thanks to various subjects, that is to say : political history, social history and art history.Thus, the manor house was changed thanks to several families’ and several collectors’ actions in its architecture and also in its internal decoration. Finally, we will analyze, the history of taste through the example of the constitution of the collection of Kerazan. Do paintings, furniture and daily objects deserve the name of " Breton collection "?What were the goals of this collection, which trends can be observed, and which processes could we identify ? Can the latter be compared with other collections ?
Joyeux, Hélène. "Un certain "esprit de collection" : les collectionneurs d'art français du monde de la mode (XXe-XXIe siècles)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA01H040.
Full textSince the invention of haute couture at the end of the XIXth century until today, the fashion world has been one of the professional sectors where the collectors are the most numerous. This raises the question of whether there is a specific type of collectionnism among the fashion collectors, and if so, how is it structured and how has it evolved. If this is the first line of research chosen to analyze these relationships, it is certainly not the only one but it cannot be understood without addressing, more widely other forms of collaboration between all the peripheral creative actors in this field. Indeed, collectionism is part of the network of relationships between leading fashion designers, or leaders of luxury goods companies, artists, art dealers, gallery owners, journalists, critics, photographers and clients of both sectors, etc. To do so, we have chosen three examples of collectionism that have in common the fact that they have marked their era, contemporary fashion and the ‘spirit’ of collection: those of Jacques Doucet, the couple Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent and Bernard Arnault through the brand Louis Vuitton and the Louis Vuitton Foundation. This thesis proposes to analyze and explore collectionism from the point of view of the collector but also, to place these collections at the same time in their respective era, in their filiations, in the history of art and fashion history
Jouves, Barbara. "La conservation et la restauration des tableaux des collections privées à Paris (1789-1870)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01H070.
Full textConcerned about the conservation of their art collections, in the years between 1789 and 1870, Parisian amateurs called upon the services of painting restorers, who, at that time, belonged to a profession considered quite separate from that of art dealer, expert or even painter. While the restorer worked on paintings belonging to private collectors, he also acted as a guide for the latter, broadening their knowledge of Ŕ or even teaching them about Ŕ pictorial techniques. This understanding of the materiality of artworks gradually contributed to collectors being invited into museum committees as advisors, before they acquired a privileged status in museums, from the 1860s onwards, by bequeathing their collections
Ferey, Vanessa. "La collection ethnographique du cabinet d’Histoire naturelle du Muséum national de Versailles 1767 – 2007 : trajectoire et interprétations des patrimoines de l’Amérique du Nord." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA083.
Full textThe museological relations developed between France and North America have been explored by researchers in museology but these have hardly exploited the wealth of information contained in the French collections of North American objects. The history of the making of the Fayolle Collection, which gave birth to the Cabinet of Sérent at Versailles has been studied over a period starting with New-France and going as far as our present days, in order to gather material that could be of help to future research by art historians and French curators. The private origin of this collection dating 1767 has been explored at length to favour a more objective writing of the history of the museums in France, among which that of the short-lived Versailles National Museum. This collection has proved to be a case study of the development and culture of French museology in contact with a North American material culture, exceptionally preserved in the space of French museums. Its collecting practices have been approached not only from the point of view of a French institutional history but also considering it as a North American museographical heritage. An actual history of the places, but also a descriptive work of the actors of this heritage has been written using archives and documents either rediscovered or mostly unpublished. The major role played by individual and social interactions within museum environments in the interpretation of French collecting in American territories has been reaffirmed. The analysis going as far as 2007 of the exhibition of the objects of this cabinet as a patrimonial element of French museography has testified to the existence of a cultural continuum between France and North America. Over the period of time under study a French-American praxis of museology has been revealed through the diversification of professional and academic circles of French museology. Moreover museum logics specific to spaces devoted to North American collections in France have appeared. Those conclusions characterize the Fayolle collection, a witness to a shared theorization of the field that is Museology
Herrmann, Simone. "Harry comte de Kessler (1868-1937) et la France : études sur la réception de l'art français dans l'Allemagne de Guillaume II." Paris 1, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA010552.
Full textPavot, Bénédicte. "A "pretty general taste for pictures" : the social construction of artistic value in eighteenth-century London (1685-1805)." Paris 7, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA070139.
Full textThe purpose of this dissertation is to examine how painting was perceived throughout long eighteenth century in Great Britain, and to study how the notion of cultural value veloped from the different discourses triggered by pictures. The legitimacy of a taste for ainting was a question that preoccupied both collectors and preachers declaiming against iuxury, and it became more pressing in the face of a growing interest for pictures in the well-off British middling sort. Neither moral nor aesthetic values could account entirely for the value of painting as it was construed by the British spectator, for it included a commercial component, influenced as it was by the agents, the merchants, as well as the artists themselves, busy redefining their profession and promoting a British School of painting. Operating as middlemen to bring pictures and public together, through public sales and exhibitions, the actors of the art market contributed in creating a space of sociability in European capitals — the case of London will particularly occupy this dissertation. By promoting the amateur practice of drawing, or collecting on a small-scale, they put paintings within the reach of a larger public and redefined their pedagogical value. The space of conversation inhabited by the virtuosi was enlarged to accommodate for the eighteenth¬century public, and its boundaries were those of the art market — a market that was keen to promote not only the pleasure, but also the instruction the public could gain from pictures -an aspect that conveys the socio-cultural epistemology proper to the British long eighteenth century, both sensualist and empiricist
Guichard, Charlotte. "Les amateurs d'art à Paris dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle." Paris 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA010617.
Full textFouquet-Rehault, Yolande. "Le Maître du Cardinal de Bourbon : l’Atelier d’un maître flamand de la fin du XVè siècle." Rennes 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010REN20051.
Full textThis study is about the Maître du Cardinal de Bourbon, a painter-illuminator of the end of the XVth century. Three traditional and complementary approaches are used to answer the undamental questions relative to his localisation, his status and his artistic activity and to discover his part of originality. The iconographic approach, based on compared images or on extracts, aims at isolating the main themes selected by the artist, whereas the stylistic study leans on the main characteristics of his art of flemish origin and his way of integrating the French artistic landscape. Finally, the historical study pays more attention to the artist’s relationship with the commanditors and their private motivation for art in general and this illuminator in particular
Ouellet, Pierre-Olivier. "Circulation, usages et fonctions des oeuvres d'art par les civils et les militaires en Nouvelle-France." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013REN20059.
Full textAt the beginning of the seventeenth century, in Europe, collecting art objects became a new habit for the patrons and the connoisseurs. The spread of the practice of collecting art in the second half of the seventeenth century, associated to the development of a taste for paintings in France – which are becoming increasingly available on the market – made a growing number of individuals buying art without being great collectors. Coinciding with the beginning of the colonization of the New France, we can ask if this taste for art also spread in Canada. This thesis traces the various works of art kept in homes of New France, along the St. Lawrence Valley. It tries to understand how these pieces of art circulated, how many there was, what was their variety in each domestic interior and what roles they played in the society. Furthermore, we examine therelationship between the individuals and the works of art in New France. We believe that the art object does not fall immediately into a clean ontological class where art is simply art. In addition to legitimate discourses on art, we think we must consider other perspectives for understanding the works of art in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. In fact, the work of art is not considered simply as an aesthetic object in the everyday’s life of the New France. This thesis therefore examine how citizens interpreted art images and how they used the various art objects
Subra, Danielle. "Le baron Nicolas-Joseph Marcassus de Puymaurin,collectionneur et mécène en Languedoc au siècle des Lumières." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019MON30057.
Full textThe story of the collectors from Toulouse is still to be done. Whereas some articles were occasionally devoted to one or another famous names in the collection, they remain very limited and uncompleted. Nevertheless, Robert Mesuret gathered and published all the booklets about the Salons of the painting Royal Academy of Toulouse in 1972. We have to wait until 2002 the exhibition in the Paul Dupuy museum and the catalog by Jean Penent to get a synoptic vision of the collection as it was in Toulouse in the 18th century. But, in 2003, in his book : Les grands collectionneurs. Pierre Cabanne chose the character of the provincial collector during the 18th century : the Baron of Puymaurin. He wrote : “ but the most important collector from Toulouse is the Baron of Puymaurin, who, when he was very young, brought back from Italy the love of arts” and he concluded : “ the stocklist of Puymaurin’s belongings, made a year after his death, describes the inside of his hotel and its content : the yellow bedroom, the gilded lounge, the Cabinet, the furniture, the paintings and the library, that was one of the last provincial’s of the 18th century during the revolutionary trouble. On his tracks, we are going to dedicate our study to the Baron of Puymaurin. From his birth in 1718 to his death in 1791, we will retrace the life story of this curious, eclectic and resourceful mind. He was at the same time a music lover, businessman, academician, general mayor of the Languedoc county and a collector. We will, as well, stop in the diverse living places before making an analysis of his collections through the stocklists made after his death. These are precious sources of information. The content of his library as well as the one of his cabinets open to the diversity of the centers of attention of this erudite person. They allow at the same time to find a definition of his tastes, like the booklets of the lounge and the catalog of the sale of some items of his cabinet, after his death. Then, we will study the content of his activities inside the academies he belonged to and the part he played as a sponsor of the painter Jacques Gamelin among others. He was his discoverer and the eager defender. The Baron of Puymaurin’s collection was spread all over after his death. At last, we will try to retrace the travels of these works scattered in personal collections and in French or foreign museums
Rusque, Dorothée. "Le dialogue des objets : fabrique et circulation des savoirs naturalistes : le cas des collections de Jean Hermann (1738-1800)." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018STRAG017.
Full textFollowing the issues raised by the historic anthropology of the knowledge and the material turn, the thesis questions the cognitive dimension of the collections of natural history of Jean Hermann (1738-1800). From 1762, the naturalist created a rich cabinet composed of objects from the three kingdoms of nature. The cabinet was associated with two other forms of collections: a library and a botanical garden, which he managed as professor of botany of the university of medicine from 1783. All three forms of collections were used as his equipment for research and teaching. The investigation shall determine the role of objects in the production and the circulation of the naturalistic knowledge. Its objective is also to observe the social construction of a learned figure. The study points out the importance of the economy of exchange of objects in the constitution of collections and the role of the dialogue between objects - samples, books, images – in the visualization process. The visual device of the cabinet is at the core of the process of knowledge making. Collections contributed to the emergence of a public science; they were media of teaching and attracted numerous visitors
Cavalié, Hélène. "Pierre Germain dit le Romain (1703-1783). Une vie à l'ombre des orfèvres du roi." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040280.
Full textThe Parisian silversmith Pierre Germain the Roman (1703-1783). A career near the silversmiths of the king. The Parisian silversmith Pierre Germain the Roman (Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, 1703-Paris, 1783), known for his book the Éléments d’orfèvrerie, had an original career. During his youth he worked for the silversmiths of the king, Thomas Germain (1726-1729); and after some time in Rome (1729-1733), worked for Jacques Roettiers (1733-1736) and as an apprentice for Nicolas Besnier from 1736. Master in 1744, he kept working for Roettiers until 1755-1756. Great messenger of the University, fond of engravings, he published in 1748 the largest book of models of the time, Élémentsd’orfèvrerie, 100 plates of rococo religious and civil silverware, engraved by Bacquoy and Pasquier, reprinted and copied until the 19th century in France and abroad (London, Turin). He also published in 1751 a short Livre d’ornemens. Installed quai des orfèvres, he had a small production, 1410 kg of silver up to his death, beautiful or simple objects,including orders for Joseph I of Portugal under contract for François Thomas Germain (1755-1756, 1765), for the Wal de Baronville family (1761-1763), the princess of Asturias in collaboration with Philippe Caffieri and Thomas Chancellier (1765), the Wandalin Mnisech (1762-1764), the Rocheblave (1777), the count of Artois and the princess of Ligne (1782). This study also covers artists he knew well: in Paris, his masters Germain, Roettiers, Besnier, his collegue Denys Frankson, his apprentices Ange Joseph Aubert and Pontaneau; in Avignon, the Clerc and Mézangeau families and Claude Imbert, his parents the architects J.-B. and François Franque, the organ builder Charles Boisselin; in Marseille, the Durand and Giraud families and his nephew Antoine Germain
Lacroix, Laurier. "Le fonds de tableaux Desjardins : nature et influence." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ36285.pdf.
Full textSegreto, Nora. "Collectionner sous le Second Empire : l’exemple du Musée Rétrospectif de 1865." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021SORUL002.
Full textIn 1865, just one year after its foundation, the Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie organized its first exhibition called Musée Rétrospectif. About 250 collectors took part in it with a selection of their art objects. At the times of the first universal exhibitions, during a new phase of industrial, commercial, and social development, the State understood that only arts could offer a guarantee for France to achieve the highest international success. In fact, the declared aim of the collectors involved in the exhibition was suggesting the French industrialists that winning a prize at the universal exhibitions was possible only if they could inspire their products from the art works. However, since the exhibition was public, there were also some other aims: educating the public to arts, proposing an aesthetic paradigm, and channelling the aesthetic choices of the visitors. Actually, most of them were also among the consumers of high-end products, who could later be interested in buying industrial and light manufacture products inspired by the art works they had admired at the art exhibition. The collectors of the Museé Rétrospectif have been not only among the most important social actors of their times, but they could be considered those who interpreted in the best way the pedagogical and educational vocation of the Second French Empire and the 19th century
Brugeat, Céline. "Quand l'Amérique collectionnait des cloîtres gothiques : les ensembles de Trie-sur-Baïse, Bonnefont-en-Comminges et Montréjeau." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016TOU20036.
Full textThree cloisters attributed to the monasteries of "Trie-sur-Baise", " Bonnefont-en-Comminges" (the Cloisters, New York) and "Montréjeau" (Paradise Island, Bahamas) were purchased by American collectors and rebuilt, during the XXth century, in North America. The modern assembly of such monuments generates interest on the taste of these American amateurs, from the beginning of XXth century, for medieval European architecture. While respectively attributed to the monasteries of "Trie-sur-Baise", "Bonnefont-en-Comminges" (the Cloisters, New York) and "Montréjeau" (Paradise Island, Bahamas), the initial attribution states that the stones were from central Pyrenees monasteries, whose ruins were scattered throughout ancient times : the Hundred-year war as well as the wars of religion, the gradual desertion of religious institutions by their communities during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries and, at last, the alienation of their properties during the Revolution seriously damaged the integrity of monastic buildings. However, during the post-revolutionary period until the early XXth century, many discrete transactions between individuals and antique dealers further took away the stones real origin from the collective memory, especially cloisters sculptures coveted for their ornament. Identifying the cloisters provenance was the main subject of this study. The three carved marbles present various iconography ; while the "Bonnefont-en-Comminges" and "Montréjeau" ensembles both show stylized foliage ornaments, the "Trie-sur-Baise" cloister depicts original figurative scenes. Carrying out an in-depth study of these sculptures made it possible to accurately associate the cloisters to their original architectural set and production context
Cordera, Paola. "Dal museo delle cose al Musée Imaginaire : materiali per la (ri)costituzione del Museo di arti decorative e industriali di Frédéric Spitzer (1815-1890)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010691.
Full textThis study focus on the reconstruction of the collection of the art dealer Frédéric Spitzer (1815-1890), by reconsidering the role of his collection within the 19th century European frame and its meaning in the present culture within contemporary cultural dynamics at a global scale. Auctioned in 1893, his collection was considered an exemplar model of his era, marked by strong links between collection, studies, new production of art, communication and disclosure items. Reconsidered according to a multidisciplinary and a transnational perspective and based on unpublished documents, the Spitzer’s microstoria has been rewritten in the wake of his multiple identity, his European travels and his relations with the key figures of the European cultural world. His collection and his art’s objects have been studied here within their original frame, being on display in Spitzer’s mansion in Paris where social rites and private life in the reception rooms were extended into the museum, showing reference to the spirit of the Italian Renaissance in a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk. A reasoned inventory was finally compiled in order to rebuild the lost unity of the museum according to the Spitzer’s encyclopedic and taxonomic spirit in order to contribure and understand its complexity as a research support tool and as a device of information for the cultural heritage and the present mémoire collective
Fuccia, Laura de. "Collezionisti francesi di pittura veneziana nel Seicento." Paris, EPHE, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007EPHE4151.
Full textZambon, Alessia. "L. F. S. Fauvel (1753-1838) : les découvertes d'antiquités en Grèce à la fin du XVIIIè et au début du XIXè siècle." Paris 1, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA010603.
Full textGoëssant, Elodie. "George Watson-Taylor, Esq, MP (1771-1841) : collectionneur de peintures dans l’Angleterre Regency." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040135.
Full textEven if it isn’t well-known nowadays, the Watson-Taylor collection was indisputably one of the most important collections of the 1820s in Great Britain. It distinguished itself by the distinctive personality of its founder who assembled between 1803 and 1821 a collection as prestigious as great aristocratic ones. However, George Watson-Taylor’s wealth resting on the instable and declining West Indian sugar market, he suffered a reversal of fortune in 1832, forcing him to sell all his properties. He acquired nearly three hundred and twenty paintings including many masterpieces now exhibited in museums all over the world. Research on these collection and figure questions many aspects of the history of art and collections at this pivotal period, in particular issues like speculation, connoisseurship, art market, the role of patronage in the recognition of the British school of painting in its own country and internationally. It also treats of the historicist movement, still tinged with Romantic thought and aesthetic in that period, and of the identity issues related to the emergence of new elites. Many topics linked to a very rich context involving patriotism, debate about the abolition of slavery and political reform. It provides new information about the passage between the ways of collecting inherited from the Grand Tour, and the Victorian ones more focused on national and contemporary art. This doctoral thesis aims to analyze a celebrated then forgotten collection and to determine its place in the history of taste and collecting in Great Britain at the end of the Regency era
Seniuta, Isabella. "Histoire du Eye Club : les valeurs de la photographie : Paris-New York (1960-1989)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA01H004.
Full textThis thesis questions the invention of a phrase : The Eye Club. Invented by the American historian Eugenia Parry, it has been designating a grouping active in the 1960s-1980s composed of : Pierre Apraxine, Hugues Autexier, François Braunschweig, Françoise Heilbrun, André Jammes, Gérard Lévy, Harry Lunn, Philippe Néagu, Alain Paviot, Richard Pare, Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe. These twelve characters lived between France and the United States and are connected and related by several cultural and temporal factors. This grouping is not, strictly speaking, a circle of sociability, it is rather a constellation or a nebula made of scattered cultural positions and diverse artistic projects. The main question that guided this survey is the following: in what way does the Eye Club and its individual actors contributed to the re-evaluation of the commercial, aesthetic and institutional value of photography between the early 1960s and the late 1990s among Paris and New York ? The chronology begins with André Jammes' involvement in the world of photography and ends in 1989, the year of Mapplethorpe's death. An inquiry of archives and key players has brought to light some well-known names, and others that remained in the shadow of history. This study aims at unveiling an interdependent network of actors, whose common interests in photography have made it possible to establish, in one generation, the photography market as we know it today. The first volume of the thesis offers, from a transatlantic perspective; an investigation and analysis of this based on photographs and correspondences. The second volume brings together twenty-four interviews conducted over my five years of doctoral research. First with the main protagonists of The Eye Club (Pierre Apraxine, Françoise Heilbrun, Richard Pare and Alain Paviot), then with the families of The Eye Club and finally with various personalities from the world of photography (Frish Brandt, Peter Bunnell, Denis Canguilhem, Sylviane De Decker, Viviane Esders, Patrick Faigenbaum, Philippe Garner, Maria Morris Hamburg, Susan Kismaric, Hans Peter Kraus Jr, Harold Jones, Baudoin Lebon, Eugenia Parry, Françoise Reynaud, Samia Saouma and Daniel Wolf). Together, the two volumes sketch a history of encounters between photography enthusiasts that has, up to now, been mainly articulated in oral form between France and the United States in the 1960s and 1980s