The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Frick Collection’s Center for the History of Collecting will host a three-day symposium, January 11-12, 2019, in conjunction with The Orléans Collection, an exhibition dedicated to the collecting and collection of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, (1674–1723) and on view at NOMA through January 27, 2019.
Friday, January 11
6 pm: Evening Keynote Lecture by Vanessa Schmid, Senior Research Curator for European Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art
Saturday, January 12
9 am – 7 pm: Symposium Sessions and Reception
In slightly more than two decades, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, amassed one of the most important collections of European paintings in the history of art, which he displayed in his Palais-Royal in Paris. The Duke’s celebrated collection comprised over 500 masterpieces of European art, and this landmark exhibition reunites a representative group of forty works to tell the complex story of the collection’s formation and character and the impact of the sales of the collection in London during the French revolution, a watershed event in the history of collecting.
The symposium will consider Philippe II’s taste and the impact the collection had for generations of collectors and artists, and an increasingly wider public throughout the eighteenth century. Subjects of interest include: Philippe II’s patronage network; fellow collectors and trends in collecting in Paris; dealers and the art market in eighteenth-century Paris; connections with contemporary collections in the German principalities; the “Orleans Effect” in Great Britain and later entrance into public collections.
Admission: $100 general public | $75 NOMA members | $30 Graduate students with ID
Hotel blocks have been reserved for symposium participants at the Hampton Inn on Saint Charles; register using the codeword: NOMAFRICKSYMPOSIUM.
The Center for the History of Collecting was established at the Frick Art Reference Library in 2007 to support the study of the formation of art collections, both public and private, from the Renaissance to the present day, while asserting the relevance of this subject to art and cultural history. The Center’s public programs provide a forum for thoughtful exchange that stimulates scholarship in this discipline. The Center also offers fellowships, seminars, panels, and study days and plays a significant role in creating the tools needed for access to primary documents generated by art collectors and dealers.
Image credit: Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669), The Mill, 1645-1648, Oil on canvas, 34 1/2 x 41 9/16 in., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Widener Collection, Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington