this volume is groundbreaking for its diverse methodological range that illuminates artistic taste and flourishing art commerce at the turn of the nineteenth century

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (1636– 1699)

and its relationship with other French academies and guilds

with its combination of these elements

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