Artistes et collections royales et princières en France (XVIe-fin du XVIIIe siècle)
Work published with the financial support of the CRCV.
Artistes et collections royales et princières en France (XVIe-fin du XVIIIe siècle), sous la direction de Delphine Carrangeot, Lille: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, collection “Histoire de l’art”, September 2025, 180 p., €20 (ISBN: 978-2-7574-4444-3).
Proceedings of the symposium of the same name which was held at the université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines/Paris-Saclay from May 16 to 18, 2019.
What was the role of artists in the creation, organisation and management of royal and princely collections in France from the Renaissance to the end of the Ancien Régime?
The practice of collecting remains one of the least explored aspects of the relationship between princes and the arts.
Indeed, understanding the artist’s place in the complex processes that governed royal and princely collecting in early modern France calls for interdisciplinary inquiry. This collective approach contributes to a socio-cultural, material and even political history of collecting, one that is concerned not only with princes but also with producers (of original works or copies), with intermediary artists, with “keepers” of cabinets of paintings, antiquities and precious objects (the forerunners of today’s conservation professionals), and finally with documentary tools such as drawings and inventories.
Organised chronologically, the volume explores the multifaceted role of artists in the creation, organisation and management of French royal and princely collections from the Renaissance to the end of the Ancien Régime.
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