Caylus, patron of the king: Collecting antiquities in the 18th century.
INHA| N° d'inventaire | 31083 |
| Format | 24 x 16 |
| Détails | 159 p., 96 catalogued objects, 6 fig., 2 pl., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2002 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782951930704 |
Thanks to this first exhibition and this catalogue, the name of Caylus will once again be spoken in the very district and within the walls where he became a European authority and celebrity under Louis XV. The educated public will be able to discover under this name the many facets of the character, one of the most characteristic of the early 18th century in Paris: his abundant literary production as a travel writer and diary writer, playwright, translator, novelist, storyteller, man of conversation and society, but also his multiple curiosities as a "virtuoso" and patron, engraver, scholar, antiquarian, critic and promoter of the arts, and finally the man of action, who created a personal network of correspondents throughout Europe which he used to place the works of the artists he protected or to have them themselves engaged in a foreign court, while he dexterously and resolutely maneuvered the royal system of Academies to make his views on French arts prevail [...].
Thanks to this first exhibition and this catalogue, the name of Caylus will once again be spoken in the very district and within the walls where he became a European authority and celebrity under Louis XV. The educated public will be able to discover under this name the many facets of the character, one of the most characteristic of the early 18th century in Paris: his abundant literary production as a travel writer and diary writer, playwright, translator, novelist, storyteller, man of conversation and society, but also his multiple curiosities as a "virtuoso" and patron, engraver, scholar, antiquarian, critic and promoter of the arts, and finally the man of action, who created a personal network of correspondents throughout Europe which he used to place the works of the artists he protected or to have them themselves engaged in a foreign court, while he dexterously and resolutely maneuvered the royal system of Academies to make his views on French arts prevail [...].