Medium as museum: Marie-Victoire Jaquotot's porcelain painting and post-revolutionary fantasies of preservation

"In 1826 the French state purchased Marie-Victoire Jaquotot’s porcelain copy of François Gérard’s Corinne at Cape Miseno (1819-20) for twenty thousand francs, exceeding the amount of the original painting. Upending our assumptions about the relative value of originals and copies in the nineteen...

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1. Verfasser: Harkett, Daniel (VerfasserIn)
Format: Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
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Zusammenfassung:"In 1826 the French state purchased Marie-Victoire Jaquotot’s porcelain copy of François Gérard’s Corinne at Cape Miseno (1819-20) for twenty thousand francs, exceeding the amount of the original painting. Upending our assumptions about the relative value of originals and copies in the nineteenth century, the extraordinary sum paid to Jaquotot reflected the high esteem in which the restored Bourbon monarchy held reproductive painting on porcelain, which is the subject of this chapter. In the context of France’s fragile post-revolutionary settlement, reproductive painting on porcelain met a royalist need for stability while tapping into a feeling common among members of the elite that the private sphere could catalyze public renewal. Stung by the departure of so many prestigious works from the Louvre at the end of the Napoleonic era, royal administrators believed porcelain copies might compensate for the loss and help renew the mission of the museum during the Bourbon Restoration."
Beschreibung:Illustrationen
ISBN:978-1-5013-4839-6

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