Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jan Dirk Baetens
• Dries Lyna
• Baetens, Jan Dirk
• Lyna, Dries

Titel

INTRODUCTION: Towards an International History of the Nineteenth-Century Art Trade

Ist Teil von

• Art Crossing Borders, 2019, Vol.6, p.1

Ort / Verlag

United States: BRILL

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In 1920 the prestigious French Légion d’honneur was awarded to the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, whose clever business tactics had launched the careers of the impressionists a few decades earlier. The reason for this official mark of honour was not so much Durand-Ruel’s role in the flowering of French art as such, as it was his contribution to foreign trade.¹ This motivation was probably not a surprise for the dealer. Commercial success abroad had been essential in the impressionists’ rise to fame: as Durand-Ruel himself observed in his memoirs, it was only after he had been able to secure a