Japan’s Southern Schools: Imported Painting, Chinese Criticism, and the Contours of Connoisseurship in Eighteenth-Century Japan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgments 1
4. Introduction: Connoisseurship in the Networked Eighteenth Century 3
5. Tactile Simulacra: Japanese Still Life Surimono as Artifacts of Eighteenth-Century Treasure Gatherings 15
6. Tout Rome veüt vendre: The Collection of Cardinal Filippo Antonio Gualtieri in Rome and in Dresden 29
7. The Connoisseurship Practices of a “Levantine” of Marseille or When Trade Meets Art 53
8. A Crouching Woman at Her Toilette: Venus or Radha? Cross-Cultural Connoisseurship of an Indian Album Motif 69
9. Japan’s Southern Schools: Imported Painting, Chinese Criticism, and the Contours of Connoisseurship in Eighteenth-Century Japan 87
10. Jean-Baptiste Gentil’s “Mughalesque” Albums: A Study in the Visual Nodes and Aesthetic Modes of Firanghi Paintings in Eighteenth-Century India 101
11. Accommodating Contours: Vicente Victoria on Chinese Printmaking 121
12. The Practice of Drawing as a Tool of Connoisseurship in Eighteenth-Century Europe 155
13. Fragonard’s Companion Pieces for the Marquis de Véri: The Art of Pendants or a Transcultural Narrative of Modern French Painting 171
14. Breaking Grounds: Print Connoisseurship and Resurfacing Antiquities in Naples 189
15. Duke August’s Chinese Cabinet at Gotha: Authenticity and Connoisseurship of Asian Objects in Germany 203
16. Asymmetries of Connoisseurship in a Globalizing World: The Geopolitics of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Paris 221
17. Biographies of Authors and Editors 243
18. Image Credits 247