Jacoby, Joachim: Guillaume Jean Constantin (1755-1816): A Drawings Dealer in Paris. 2019. 188 pages, 75 colour illustrarions. Paperback. 25 x 19cms. Tracing the career of the influential Paris art dealer Guillaume Jean Constantin (1755-1816), an expert in estate evaluation, auctioneer and print publisher who also served as paintings curator to Empress JosÃphine. His transactions are reconstructed on the evidence of his dealer's mark applied to drawings - here identified for the first time - and unpublished material drawn from archives in Paris. His dealership in drawings is analysed with a focus on his business network within France and his contacts in England, Italy, Germany and Russia. His relationship with Johann Friedrich StÀdel, a Frankfurt collector and founder of the eponymous institute, is described in detail. Working in proximity to the contemporary art world, Constantin promoted living artists, among them his close friend Pierre-Paul Prud'hon.
Tracing the career of the influential Paris art dealer Guillaume Jean Constantin (1755-1816), an expert in estate evaluation, auctioneer and print publisher who also served as paintings curator to Empress JosÃphine. His transactions are reconstructed on the evidence of his dealerâs mark applied to drawings â here identified for the first time â and unpublished material drawn from archives in Paris. His dealership in drawings is analysed with a focus on his business network within France and his contacts in England, Italy, Germany and Russia. His relationship with Johann Friedrich StÀdel, a Frankfurt collector and founder of the eponymous institute, is described in detail. Working in proximity to the contemporary art world, Constantin promoted living artists, among them his close friend Pierre-Paul Prudâhon.
Jacoby, Joachim: Hans von Aachen (1552-1615). Munich: 2000. 340pp with 28 colour and 106 monochrome illustrations. Wrappers. 24x17cms. Monograph and critical catalogue of the works by the 16th-century German painter, who worked at the court of Rudolf II in Prague, in Florence and at the court of Herzog Wilhelm V of Bavaria. His oeuvre focused on the religious, genre and allegorical subjects and included numerous portraits. The catalogue examines his existing works and also those destroyed or lost during the war. With a comprehensive bibliography and indices. Text in German.
Monograph and critical catalogue of the works by the 16th-century German painter, who worked at the court of Rudolf II in Prague, in Florence and at the court of Herzog Wilhelm V of Bavaria. His oeuvre focused on the religious, genre and allegorical subjects and included numerous portraits. The catalogue examines his existing works and also those destroyed or lost during the war. With a comprehensive bibliography and indices. Text in German