The art market in Europe of the Enlightenment is a field of open battles and hidden spy games. The British and the Germans are competing in buying up antique sculpture in Italy; in Amsterdam\u00a0dealers and collectors from all over Europe purchase\u00a0artworks and exotica, brought from Asia by the East India Company.<\/em><\/p>\n The art market of the XVIII century is\u00a0a scene\u00a0of action of agents and art dealers; they are involved in negotiations and experts’ appraisals, they\u00a0make strategies full of\u00a0tricks and sometimes cheat in order to get a painting.\u00a0Who are these art dealers? What tricks do they resort to? How does\u00a0their invisible network function?\u00a0This investigation is based on\u00a0several examples from the secret diplomatic letters\u00a0of the 1770s.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Watch her interview\u00a0with ex-President of the Museum Louvre here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Language: Russian<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Entry: CamRuSS members\u00a0– FREE, others – \u00a35<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How to buy a painting in the 18th century Europe: the network of Russian agents. Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.camruss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/38-240x300.jpg\")
Empress Catherine II massively buys up paintings in Paris, Dresden, London and Brussels, in rivalry with a Prussian king and collector Frederick the Great. Many\u00a0Russian aristocrats spare no forces for their art collections: Stroganov, Demidov, Yusupov, Golitsyn – here are a few names that many heard about. However, these collectors with their important acquisitions\u00a0are just the tip of the iceberg.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.camruss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/22221612_124930208257320_3919696420856101899_n.jpg\")
Dr Olga Popova is an art historian based in Paris, who researched European art market of XVIII century and the role that Russian art dealers played in shaping major international art collections as part of her doctoral thesis, which she successfully defended at Lille University in 2016. Olga is an art-blogger at Orbita Paris web TV Channel where she leads a programme on art and culture in Russian.<\/i><\/p>\n