Reframing Japonisme : women and the Asian art market in nineteenth-century France, 1853-1914 / Elizabeth Emery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emery, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Nicole), author.

Series:

Contextualizing art markets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women art collectors.

History.

Art, Modern--Collectors and collecting.

Art, Modern.

Japonism.

Art, Modern--Collectors and collecting--History--19th century.

Women art collectors--History--19th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 258 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

Summary:

Japonisme, the nineteenth-century fascination for Japanese art, has generated scholarship since the beginning of the twenty-first century, but most of it neglects the women who acquired objects from the Far East and sold them to clients or displayed them in their homes before bequeathing them to museums. The stories of women shopkeepers, collectors, and artists rarely appear in memoirs left by those associated with the japoniste movement. This volume brings to light the largely forgotten activities of women such as Clémence d'Ennery (1823-1898), who began collecting Japanese and Chinese chimeras in the 1840s, built and decorated a house for them in the 1870s, and bequeathed the "Musée d'Ennery" to the state as a free public museum in 1893. A friend of the Goncourt brothers and a fifty-year patron of Parisian dealers of Asian art, d'Ennery's struggles to gain recognition as a collector and curator serve as a lens through which to examine the collecting and display practices of other women of her day. Travelers to Japan such as the Duchesse de Persigny, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and Laure Durand- Fardel returned with souvenirs that they shared with friends and family. Salon hostesses including Juliette Adam, Louise Cahen d'Anvers, Princesse Mathilde, and Marguerite Charpentier provided venues for the discussion and examination of Japanese art objects, as did well-known art dealers Madame Desoye, Madame Malinet, Madame Hatty, and Madame Langweil. Writers, actresses, and artists--Judith Gautier, Thérèse Bentzon, Sarah Bernhardt, and Mary Cassatt, to name just a few--took inspiration from the Japanese material in circulation to create their own unique works of art. Largely absent from the history of Japonisme, these women-and many others-actively collected Japanese art, interacted with auction houses and art dealers, and formed collections now at the heart of museums such as the Louvre, the Musée Guimet, the Musée Cernuschi, the Musée Unterlinden, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Contents:

"Come on up and see my Monsters": Chinoiseries, Japonaiseries, and the Musée d'Ennery

The Market for Asian Collectibles in Nineteenth-Century Paris: From Department Store to Museum

Vitrines: From Drawing Room to Exhibit Hall and Museum

The Musée d'Ennery: The Reception of a Woman's Museum in the Parisian Press (1893-1908).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Emery, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Nicole). Reframing Japonisme.

ISBN:

9781501344633

1501344633

OCLC:

1127173530