Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dalia Judovitz
• Natasha Seaman
• Joanna Woodall

Titel

Monetary Transactions and Pictorial Gambles in Georges de La Tour

Ist Teil von

• Money Matters in European Artworks and Literature, c. 1400-1750, 2022, p.273

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Money plays a central role in Georges de La Tour’s (1593–1652) depictions of scenes of payment of taxes or dues, gambling, and fortune telling. These paintings represent different kinds of transactions, since the financial obligations involved in keeping account books and settling debts are at variance with vicarious risks and expenditures of money in games of fortune. My analysis draws on Marcel Mauss’ seminal observation in “The Origins of the Notion of Money” (1914), that money is not merely a physical or material fact since its essence is socially defined.¹ Its validation presupposes a form of faith that “is