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Magnificent piece of furniture said of collectors in massive oak. It has a display case in the upper part and opens in front of 4 drawers.
This piece of furniture of center of room, rests on plinth and has a mechanism of secret closing.
Period : Louis-Philippe - Beginning of XIXth century
Circa : 1835 - 1840
Dimensions : Height : 78cm x Width : 65cm x Depth : 46cm
In the 19th century, the collection became a social fact, certainly because it embodied in turn the pedagogical role of the republican discourse, and then the will to fill the private sphere with art, in the face of the fear of the new world that was born at the end of the century.
In the 1840s: the collector is perceived as an asocial eccentric. He is a passionate person but more associated with the madman than with the scholar.
Often solitary, the collection of the latter is a refuge for him. However the practice of collecting spreads and contaminates little by little the bourgeois...
In the 1860s, the opening of the Drouot auction house brought together the most erudite Parisians. The development of private collections took place at the same time as the opening of a few museums (the Cluny museum in 1844 - the museum of national antiquities in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1854).
The collectors thus acquired a real legitimacy and were no longer on the fringe but at the head of civil society. The practice gradually reached all the amateurs whose number increased from year to year and became a fashionable fact, but this was not attested to until the 1870s.
In the 1870's everyone was collecting. The practice of collecting had become a norm. These are then very diversified since everyone collects, it is necessary to be distinguished by the works and objects collected.
The collection thus incites the sociological analysis of its constitution, what is collected reflects the tastes and the social environment of the collector.
Ref: FT4JO7G1F5
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1940s Colored Glass Chandelier
1.800 € EUR
