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Auction Houses

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The dismantling of collections attracted a growing audience to the auctions, which took on complementary roles as exhibition venues. Crucially, these urban landmarks enabled a social and visible valuation of artefacts. Behind the scenes, auctioneers offered services that professionalized the art market (as brokers, appraisers and upholsterers). As commerce evolved from an early modern market based on reputation and personal ties to commerce liaised by middlemen, the Auction House connected collectors of varied social backgrounds, contracting on their behalf an array of services (frame-makers, picture-restorers and dealers) both in the city and internationally, and becoming a hub of connoisseurial debate.
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hal-03818707 , version 1 (18-10-2022)

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Bénédicte Miyamoto. Auction Houses. Open-Access DIGITENS Digital Encyclopaedia on Sociability in Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century, 2022. ⟨hal-03818707⟩
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