The houses and collections of the Marquis de Marigny / Alden R. Gordon ; edited by Carolyne Ayçaguer-Ron ; assisted by Maria L. Gilbert, Elizabeth A. Spatz, Patricia A. Teter.

Main entry:

Gordon, Alden R.

Title & Author:

The houses and collections of the Marquis de Marigny / Alden R. Gordon ; edited by Carolyne Ayçaguer-Ron ; assisted by Maria L. Gilbert, Elizabeth A. Spatz, Patricia A. Teter.

Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Provenance Index of the Getty Research Institute, 2003.

Description:

xx, 677 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Series:

Documents for the history of collecting. French inventories ; 1

Notes:
One folded plan in pocket of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 667-677) and indexes.
Chiefly English; inventory in French.

Summary:

Between 1750 and his death in 1781, the Marquis de Marigny-brother of Madame de Pompadour, courtier to Louis XV, and one of eighteenth-century France's important patrons of art and architecture-amassed a collection that was broad in scope, progressive in taste, and exceptional in quality and provenance. This book offers a transcription of the exhaustive inventory of the marquis's estate together with an essay in which Alden R. Gordon not only sketches Marigny's life and times but also re-creates the interiors and grounds where the paintings, statues, books, household goods, and other property listed in the inventory were displayed and used. Also included are plans of Marigny's last four residences; lists of heirs, paintings, and auction sales; transcriptions of shipping manifests and sales catalogs; indexes; and a glossary. The book will delight and inform art historians, connoisseurs, and anyone with an interest in daily life during the age of Enlightenment.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

089236694X (alk. paper)
9780892366941 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Marigny, Abel François Poisson, marquis de, 1727-1781 Art collections.
Marigny, Abel François Poisson, marquis de, 1727-1781 Homes and haunts.
Marigny, Abel François Poisson, marquis de, 1727-1781.
Marigny, Abel François Poisson de 1727-1781
Marigny, Abel François Poisson ((de))
Bauhaus Dessau 1986-1994 Bereich Architektur und Sammlungen
Art Private collections France.
Art Collections privées France.
Art Private collections.
Homes.
Sammlung
Kunstcollecties.
Particuliere verzamelingen.
Inventarissen.
France.
1781-1781

Form/genre:

Quelle
Inventories.

Added entries:

Ayçaguer-Ron, Carolyne.
Gilbert, Maria L. (Maria Leilani), 1963-
Spatz, Elizabeth A.
Teter, Patricia A.
Documents for the history of collecting. French inventories ; 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232291
Call No.: N5262.M3 G6 2003
Status: Available

Location: Library main 232292
Call No.: N5262.M3 G6 2003
Copy: sheet
Status: Available

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