Art market and connoisseurship
a closer look at paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens and their contemporaries
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Although the art market in the Dutch Golden Age has been much researched in the last few decades, and there has been a growing interest in early modern connoisseurship, these fields of research have hardly been studied in relation to one another. Recent studies of the art market in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century enable us to look more closely at seventeenth-century connoisseurship. The contributors trace the evolution of connoisseurship in the art market of the seventeenth- and eighteenth centuries. The questions are: who priced and attributed pictures for inventories and sales, and how did they determine a painting's value? How did the price of a painting relate to its quality?